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8NS-104-94-077, Miscellaneous 
Correspondence & Memos, 1897-1994 



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THE GREAT MINT ROBBERY 


BY 

LOUIS T. MONAHAN 


Why it has always been called the "Mint Robbery" is not exactly 
understandable. The Federal Reserve Bank truck was held up in front of 
the Mint and the bank guards relieved of $200,000 in $5.00 bills. If 
the holdup had occurred in front of the Public Library (just l%blocks 
east of the Mint) would they have labeled it "The Great Public Library 
Robbery ? The International News Service reported it saying, "First 
Successful U.S. Mint Holdup"; also, "There have been cases of petty 
thefts from government mints, but never an organized holdup on so grand 
and successful scale". 

. On the morning of December 18, 1922, at 10:40 A.M., this historical 
incident took place. At that time, the Denver Federal Reserve Bank 
was located in small quarters in the Continental Trust Building at 16th 
and Lawrence. In those cramped offices, there were no vaults for storing 
currency. As a consequence, the Mint at Denver was the custodian of 
large amounts of currency. The bank made two or three trips to the Mint 
each week to pick up large amounts of currency. 

At the front entrance that morning were Frank Smith, Captain of the 
Guard, Joe Herd and Pete Diodinger, Guards, James Cain and myself. 

Mr. Olson, Cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank, and Mr. O.T. Linton, Bank 
Guard, passed us on the way out, their arms loaded with bundles of 
currency. Within one minute, firing started out in front. Herd and 
Kiodinger were standing on the top step in front of the door shooting 
m the direction of the Federal Reserve truck. Jim Cain grabbed a pistol 
off the rack by the door and I used one of the rifles. We both got out 

of the front door just in time to see Linton fall with a fatal wound in 
his chest. 

To those of you who have had occasion to work at the Denver Mint 
or visit us, you may recall that the front entrance to the Mint is fitted 
with two large bronze doors that open inward. About two feet in front 
of the doors are two heavy grill doors that swing outward. At the time 
of the robbery, a shelter hut was in place in front of the grill. This 
was a simple wooden construction with one small glass paneled wood door 
for entering. The bronze doors as well as the grill doors were always 
open during business hours. The whole front of this wood door and hut 
as well as the glass panaling over the door was riddled with bullet 
holes. How either Herd or Kiodinger escaped being shot is a mystery. 

The holdup car was a touring car with the side curtains pulled 
down and was parked on the left of the Federal Reserve truck. For this re 
(the truck being in front of the holdup car) none of the bandits 
were hit at that moment. As the holdup car drove off, one of the bandits 
was on the running board just getting into the car. Kiodinger shot at 
him and his companions were soon to pull him into the car. This man was 
later found dead in the bandit car when it was found in a residential 
garage a week later. 



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As the bandit car neared the intersection of Colfax and Cherokee 
at the corner of the Mint, they received a very lucky break when a coal 
truck emerging from Cherokee Street turned right onto Colfax. If this 
truck had been crossing Colfax, there would have been a collision. How- 
ever, they escaped this and continued on up around the Civic Center to 
the hill by the Capitol. Here again they were forced to slow down as 

the hill between Lincoln and Sherman Streets was covered with ice. 

They couldn't make it so were forced to turn around and go over to 
14th Street where they continued on up to Clarkson Street and then on 
to 11th Street to the garage where the car was later found. 

All was confusion in the main corridor of the mint. Mr. Olson of 
the Federal Reserve rushed down the corridor towards the Cashier's 

Famum St. John, a clerk in the M & R Office, seeing Mr. Olson 

and not knowing who he was, fired a shot at him. Luckily his aim was 

poor and before St. John could fire another shot, Olson identified 
himself. The bullet chipped off a piece of the marble paneling in the hallway 
and to this day it has never been repaired. It is a constant reminder 
of the battle on West Colfax Avenue. 

Of course, the general alarm was sounded the minute things started. 

In the operating sections, the alarm bells were located in the rear 
corridor and the noise of the rolls in the rolling room overpowered 
the sound of the alarm bells. As a result, most of the employees were 
unaware of what happened and were surprised when they left the building 
at 4 o'clock to see the large crowd of people still standing around as 
if waiting for an encore of the morning drama. 

It was my understanding that most of the bills (195,000) were re¬ 
covered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The bills, of course, were all brand 
new. The serial numbers were known and were given wide publicity in 
the press. The first bill showed up about two weeks after the hold-up 
and was, as I recall, passed in a restaurant. The Denver Post got hold 
of it and posted it up in the front window of their plant where other 
news bulletins were posted. For days large crowds of people came to 
gaze on the bill which looked like it had been in circulation for 
several years. Whatever method the gang used to age the bills, it was 
a good one. The bill on display bore no resemblance to the brand new 
bills hi-jacked from the Federal Resesrve truck. 

The story is told that when the Secret Service finally caught up 
with the gang, they were already under lock and key at Alcatraz, jailed 
for the Kansas City Union Station massacre which occurred the following 
spring. This then would be the Machine Gun Kelly gang of St. Louis, 

Missouri. They were also accused of the Ursuel kidnapping which was 
headline news in the nation shortly after the incident in front of 
the Mint. 

Robert G. Grant was Superintendent of the Denver Mint at this 
time and shortly after was appointed Director of the Mint replacing a 
Texas oilman by the name of Scoby. 

It was a very cold day that December 18 but things got pretty warm 
for a few minutes in front of the Mint. 


LOUIS V. MONAHAN 


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Why it has always boon called tho "Mint Robbory" io not oxactly • • . 

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undor ctandablo • Tho Fodoral Rodorvo Dank truck woe hold up in front of 

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tho Mint and tho bank Guards roliovod of £200,000 in CI><>00 bills# If ’ t 

tho’’hold-up had oedurrod in front of tho Public Library (just 1-) blocks ■ >*/ 

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cast of tho Mint) would thoy havo labolod it "Tho Groat Public Library /? 


Roboory"? Tho Intornational Ho* 
Succoccful U. S, ydnt Holdup"j 


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:s Sorvico reported it onying, "First 

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ilco, "Thoro havo boon casos of potty // • • , 
thofts iron govomnent roints, but never on organized holdup on so grand ‘/‘f' 1 * 
and ouccosoful ccalo"„ . 

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• On tho rooming of Doccrobor 10, 1922, at 10:^0 A*I{#, this historical *** t 
incidont took place* At that tiroo, the Denvor Fodoral Rooorve Bank ^ 

was locatod in sroall quartore in tho Continental Trust Building at l£th ' ,J/ 
and Lawrence* In thoco craropod officos, thoro voro no vaults for storing , ry 
currency* As a ooncoquonco, tho Mint at Donvor was tho custodian of 

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largo croounto of currency* Tho bank roado two/or throo trips to tho Mint .. ^ 
oach wo ok to p ick up largo • amounts of curroncy* v . 

At tho front ontranco that rooming wore Frank Sroith, Captain of tho . ^ j 
Cuard, Joo Hol'd and Poto Kiodingor, Cuerds, Janos Cain and rysolf# Hr® • • 

Olson. Coshior of tho Fodoral Rocorvo Dank, and Mr# 0, T« Linton, Bank , 

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Guard, pasood us on tho voy'out,’ thoir arms loaded with bundlos of 
curroncy* Within ono ninuto, firing started out in front. Herd and 
Kiodingor voro standing on tho top stop in front of tho door shooting 
in tho dirootion of tho FodoraX'Rosorvo truok# Jin Cain grabbed a pis tel /* 


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of* tho rack by tho door and I usod one of tho riflno. w o both cob era- r; 
of tho front door Just in timo to coo Linton fall with a fatal wound in 

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hia ehoct. 

To thoco of you who havo had ocoadon to work at tho Denver Hint **i 
or vioit us, you may recall that tho front or.tranco to tho Mint io fittod 
with two larjo bronco dooro that opon inward. About two foot in front ; ** . 

of tho doora aro two heavy grill dooro that owing outward. At tho timo • u ! ‘ 
of tho robbory, a choltor hut wao in placo in front of tho eriU. Thin i ■ 

vao a oinplo wooden construction with ono onall C laso paneled wood door. ' ^ 
for onto ring. Tho bronco dooro ao well ao tho grill dooro wore always ! ^ 

. open during buoinooo hours. Tho whole front of thin wood door and hut J '* . 

' as well ao tho glass paneling ovor tho door vao riddled with bullet /3 

•holoo. How oithcr Herd or lilodingor oocapod boing ohot ia a cyotory. < 

The hold-up car wao a touri^ar-with tho oido curtains pullod *> • 

j down and wao parked on tho loft of tho Fodoral Rooorvo truck. 'or thio H 
' reason, (tho'truck being in front of tho hold-up car) none of tho bandits. aT 
\ voro hit'at that moment. Ao tho hold-up car drovo off, ©no of tho bon- /$ 
dito was on tho running board Jbat getting into tho car. Kiodingor chct /> 
at him and hio companions woro coon to pull him into tho car. -nio v&\ Ji > 
vaslator found doad in tho bandit car vhon it was found in a rooidontihl [f 

garage a week Xatorj ^ 

• Ao tho bandit oar noarod tho intoroootion of Colfax and Chorokoo /<— 

. at tho comor of tho mint, thoy rocoivod a vory lucky broak whon a coal /s 


truck emorging from Chorokoo Sjroot tumod right onto Colfax, if this // 
truck load boon croooing Colfax, .thoro wovlld havo boon a collision. IIow® U- 
ovor, thoy occapcd thio and continued on up around tho Civic Contor to /J 
tho hill by tho Capitol. Horo again thejy woro forced to clew down ao ! /•( 








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tho hill l>otwoon Lincoln and Sherman Stroots was covorod with ico, // •. 

Thoy couldn *t mnko it so woro forcod to turn around and go o'/or to /'/ 

liith Stroot whoro thoy continuod on up to Clarkson Stroot and thon on /3 

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to 11th Stroot to tho garago whoro tho car woo lator found* 

All wao confusion in tho main corridor of tho mint* Itr* Cleon of * 

tho Fodoral Rosorvo rushed down tho corridor towards tho Cashier *o 'o 

Offico.* Famum St, John, a clprk in tho M & R Offico, cooing Mr, Olcoa /V 

and not knowing who ho was, filed a shot at him. Luckily his aim was .. /o" - ’ 

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poor and boforo Gt, John could firo anothor shot, Olson identified // 

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hinsolf* Tho bullet chippod off a pioco of tho narblo paneling in tho /) 

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. hallway and to this day it has novor boon repaired* It is a constant ' u/ * 
romindor of tho battlo on Woot Colfax Avonuo, • * * 

Of courco, tho gonoral alarm wao sounded tho minute things started® // ‘ 

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In tho operating sections, tho alarm bolls woro locatod in tho rear / 
corridor and tho noiso of tho rolls in tho rolling room' ovorpovorod / 

tho sound of tho alarm bolls. As a rooult, moot of tho orplqyooo woro W ( 

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unawaro of what happonod and woro curpricod vhon thoy loft tho building / 

.at h o*clock to coo tho largo crowd of pooplo still otending around as /</ 
if waiting for an oncoro of tho morning drama* . f 

It wao my understanding that moot of tho bills (19^,000) woro ro<* • i*/ ' 

covorod in St. Paul, Kinnooota. Tho bills, of courco, woro all brand ' t'l** . 

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now, Tho corial nunboro woro knew and woro givon wido publicity in /. 

tho pro so* Tho first bill .showed up about two wooka aftor tho hold-up jq 

and wao, as I rooall, passed iaj a rootaurant. Tho Donvor Post get hold tq 


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of it and posted it up in tho front window of thoir plant whoro other / iT 





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news bullotins wcro posted* For days largo crovdo of people cnr.o to / ?— 
gasc on tho bill which looked Uko it had been in circulation Tor / ^ 
sovcral yoars# Whatover nothod tho gang upod to ago tho bills, it vaa /«3 
a good ono. Tho bill on display boro no rooonblanco to tho brand not? /V' 
bills hi-Jackcd from tho Fcdoral Uocorvo truck# $* 

Tho story is told that vhon tho Secrot Sorvico finally caught up rt^ 

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vriith tho c an C> thoy v;oro alroady under lock and key et Alcatraz* ^ailod / 3 

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for tho Kansas City Union Station naooacro which occurrod tho following // 
spring. This thon would bo tho Machino Gun Kolly gang St# Louie, .. )'£ 
Missouri# Thoy wore also accused of tho Urauol kidnapping which was / 

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hoadlino nowo in tho nation shortly eftor tho incidont in front of 


tho Mint, 


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Robert G. Grant was Suporiptordont of tho Donvor Hint at this // 
tino and shortly aftor was appekntod Diroctor of tho Hint replacing, a / 

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Texas oilman by tho nano of Scoby 0 • v / 

• . It was a vory cold day that DoccnbcJ 18 but thirds got pretty warn /</ 
for a fow ninutos in front of tho Hint* <j •••v.los. \ ; 


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LOOKING BACK 



T HE MOST famous robbery at the 
Denver Mint happened 53 years 
ago this month, and it still hasn’t 
been solved. 

Popularly known as the “Denver 
Mint Robbery,” the name could be, 
technically, a misnomer—the Trea¬ 
sury Department objects to it. The 
robbery was of a delivery truck of 
the Federal Reserve Branch Bank of 
Denver. The truck was picking up a 
consignment of currency that had 
been stored for security at the 
Denver Mint. At what moment the 
responsibility for the money passed 
from Mint personnel to employes of 
the Federal Reserve Bank has never 
been precisely determined. 

Dec. 18, 1922, was a bitterly cold 
day. There was little snow on the 
ground; Colfax Avenue in front of 
the Mint was clear and dry. During 
the late hours of that Monday morn¬ 
ing. traffic was light. 

The Federal Reserve Bank of 
Denver (branch of the Kansas City 
Federal Reserve Bank) was located 
at that time in the Interstate Trust 
Building at 16th and Lawrence Sts. 
Vaults there were inadequate to 
store the bank’s funds, so large 
amounts of currency and coin were 
kept in the Mint building and trans¬ 
ferred as needed. This arrangement 
was unsatisfactory to the Mint and 
the bank. 

To the bank’s men who were to 
transfer the money that morning 
from the Mint to the bank, it meant a 
short but chilly ride in a pickup 
truck. Arrangements for the 
transfer of $200,000 (all in new $5 
bills) had been made by coded tele¬ 
gram from the U.S. Comptroller’s 
Office in Washington, D. C., and 
local telephone from the bank. The 
currency was wrapped in 10 pack¬ 
ages, each 18 inches long, weighing 
about 8 pounds. 

Bank cashier J. 2. Olson had Will 

h avenor drive him to the Mint in the 
bank's pickup truck. Tile truck had a 
wire mesh cover over its bed and 
doors that could be locked, in the 
J/Lnt Olson checked ihe shipment 
made arrangements with wuai a C. T. 
Linton and ordered it taken to the 
truck. Linton emerged from the 
ront ooor first, ne run vm eny 
c rrr tv:/ ’ vrr’ 1 cy ’ 
to the back of the pickup and unfas- 

h* 

earned out 

of currencs 

qu-cr;.. Kftvtnor t- 



By DOW HELMERS 





Drawings superimposed on a photo of the Altahama apartments, 1310 E. Colfax 
day of the Mint robbery , Dec. 18, 1922. At 8 am. (1) the gang met at the A1 
and make final plans. About 9 am. (2) male members of ihe rang left the apart: 
car. Between noon and 1 pm. (3) voices of members of the gang were hen: 
ac:-u:.:ed they ivoic? dividing the money before leaving Denver Two days after 
Si JD-i.Cr widow o: Lie robber who was found dead, and Mr. d Mrs. Harold C 
eb out 3 p.m , curving suitcases containing their shares of the stolen m 
Altehama (5) shows the windows (circle and arrow) of apartment when 


maining $100.000. It was 10:40 a.m 
At this time occurred possibly the 
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do criminal history 

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up,” was shouted. Several men ap¬ 
peared, armed V/ith shoteu:.*\ rifles 
and pistols The package.- c l .c-ney 
were grabbed and thrown ; n the 

Is nol lu*owii v-ao fiiv -1 . , r but 

iccr. f he street end the fre. * of the 
“ivt. *>«> <> ?;j) a.ved with bid . Lin- 
.jn, resisting the r cooess t w : shot 


point-bia 
One rob 
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fire Iron" 
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get into 
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LOOKihiG BACK 



Denver Public Library Western Collection 

Drawings superimposed on a photo of the Altahama apartments, 1310 E. Colfax Ave., depict events on the 
day of the Mint robbery, Dec. 18, 1922. At 8 a.m. (1) the gang met at the Altahama to have breakfast 
and make final plans. About 9 a.m. (2) male members of the gang left the apartments and entered a stolen 
car. Between noon and 1 p.m. (3) voices of members of the gang were heard in the apartment. It is 
assumed they were dividing the money before leaving Denver. Two days after the robbery (4) Mrs. J. S. 
Sloano widow of the robber who was found dead, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Burns left the apartment 
about 3 p.m., carrying suitcases containing their shares of the stolen money. The photo of the 
Altahama (5) shows the windows (circle and arrow) of the apartment where the robbery gang lived. 


maining $100,G00. It was 10:40 a.m. 

At this time occurred possibly the 
most dramatic 90 seconds in Colora¬ 
do criminal luslory. 

Adams had placed his bundle in 
the bed of the truck. As Havenor 
approached the truck with his bund¬ 
le, a black Buick touring car stopped 
beliind him and the order, “Hands 


up,” was shouted. Several men ap¬ 
peared, armed with shotguns, rifles 
and pistols. The packages of money 
were grabbed and thrown in the 
car. 

It is not known who fired first, but 
soon the street and the front of the 
Mint were sprayed with bullets. Lin¬ 
ton, resisting the robbers, was shot 


point-blank and fatally wounded. 
One robber was observed with blood 
streaming from his leit hand. Under 
fire from several guards on the steps 
of the Mint, the robbers managed to 
get into their car, which headed east 
on Colfax. As it crossed Cherokee, a 
half block from the Mint’s entrance, 
one gunman, who had a shotgun and 

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An elaborate trap was set for the 
remaining criminals in February 
1923 in St. Paul, Minn., where it was 
believed the gang had been hiding. 
Although it failed, $80,000 of the loot 
was recovered from the cellar of a 
St. Paul banker. In 1925 federal 
agents announced they had identi¬ 
fied all members of the gang, but no 
names were made public. In 1934 
Denver Police Chief A. T. Clark said 
that five men and two women, re¬ 
sponsible for the robbery, were dead 
or serving terms for subsequent 
crimes. Some believe as many as 12 
were involved in the heist. 

No one has ever been arrested or 
served time in prison for the Federal 
Reserve Bank robbery in front of the 
Denver Mint 

There have been two other Mint 
robberies. On Feb. 13,1864, James D. 
Clarke, a Mint payclerk, helped 
himself to gold bars and Treasury 
notes amounting to $37,000. He 
bought a horse and rod e south 



. ho -'j i;- seated alongside the driver, 
✓as set n slumped over. The car 
urv ♦ d a fire hydrant and side- 
,wiped a truck, but managed to 
avc tii? robbery scene. No immedi- 
ta pursuit v/P3 made. Later it was 
an :d lhat the robbers proceeded 
o th Altahama apartments, 1310 E. 
Colfax Avs., where they had been 

livin '. _ , 

The 9 J seconds in froi t oi the 
Denver Mint triggered the greatest 
-anhunt Denver had even known, 
larc'i pubic and private, were 
c an hot!, esp^cially in the Capitol 
MU area. Eighteen days after the 
rtibb ::y the Buick, bloody and bat- 
serer, v as located in a r sidential 
s* c t ia: he i been rent* d at 1631 
U]p:n £t. Slumped n Lix ront seat 
.ar he frozen bo y of o ie of the 
obb rs H ? * id .-'lti let* is Nicho- 

’c> Vramcr, has J. 3. *Joane, a 
nen bzr of the gang c ? Karcld G. 
Bu 2X3. Slour.e was buried in Denver 
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Xhe funeral of the dead robber, Nicholas T Yainor, alias J. S. Sloane, took 
place in Denver at public expense. A bank guard also was shot and killed. 



MINT continued 

tlirough Colorado City. He lost his 
horse and was captured. All but 
about $4,000 was recovered. 

Over a period of months in 1920, 
Orville Harrington carried out 
$80,000 in gold bars. Harrington 
Lutied the *,oid lit lii • -ac. 
pin rming to mix the gold wittt ore 
from a mine he owned near Victor, 
Colo. 


Rowland Goddard, long-time and 
highly regarded Secret Service 
agent in Denver, crptured Harring¬ 
ton. Although Goddard spent 19 
years studying tne robbery, he 
was unabV to solve the crime. 81 

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COIN WORLD, Wednesday, April 15,1987 


Secret Service investigates 

A Denver Mint DOliremnn January anH _ _.. . 


A Denver Mint policeman 
has been arrested in tbe inves¬ 
tigation of the suspected theft 
of a $1,000 bag of newly coined 
dollars earlier this year. 

When Robert Kendall 
walked into a bank in Broom¬ 
field, Colo., and tried to ex¬ 
change several hundred dol¬ 
lars’ worth of new quarter dol¬ 
lars for paper money, tellers 
became suspicious. 

Acting upon their suspicions, 
bank personnel called the 
Denver branch of the Secret 
Service. It was discovered that 
Kendall had been employed 
for the past two years as a po¬ 
liceman at the Denver Mint 
He was arrested March 25 
for investigation of theft of 
government property, accord¬ 
ing to Jim Heavey, special 
agent in charge of the Denver 
Secret Service office. 

It is believed Kendall took a 
50-pound bag containing $1,000 
in new quarter dollars from 
the Mint sometime between 


January and mid-February. 
The case is still under investi¬ 
gation and officials would not 
say whether they think Ken¬ 
dall acted alone. 

Kendall, who quit his job af¬ 
ter his arrest, was arraigned 
before U.S. Magistrate Rich¬ 
ard Harvey and released on 
$2,500 unsecured bond person¬ 
al recognizance bond. A hear¬ 
ing was scheduled for April 7. 

Mint Superintendent Nora 
Hussey said April l that she 
had not seen the Secret Ser¬ 
vice’s report about the inci¬ 
dent and bad no comment, ex¬ 
cept to say that Mint were 
“shocked." “This isn’t what we 
look for from our employees,” 
Hussey said. She also said the 
security force “feels abused” 
by the incident. 

Duane Sjaardema, acting su¬ 
pervisor of the Mint at the 
time of the arrest, explained 
that all employees are re¬ 
quired to pass through metal 
detectors and X-ray machines 


before leaving the Mint and 
that the machines should have 
registered the presence of the 
coins. 

Sjaardema had no explanan- 
tion of the way in which the 
quarters were removed from 
the building. Sjaardema said 
there are approximately 40 
federal police officers in the 
security force, including those 


who operate the metal detec¬ 
tors and X-ray equipment 

William F. Daddio, director 
of security for all U.S. Mints, 
said the backgrounds of all 
Mint police officers are thor¬ 
oughly investigated by contact¬ 
ing former employers and ref¬ 
erences, and by examining 
criminal records, credit 


Denver theft 


records, as well as academic 
and military experience. 

Daddio said Mint police are 
checked out more intensively 
than other federal employees 
because their positions are 
classified as “sensitive." Appli¬ 
cants must have three years of 
police experience or a college 
degree in criminal justice or a 


related field, Daddio said. 

Although no one at the Den¬ 
ver Mint could recall any in¬ 
stances in which a Mint police¬ 
man had been arrested for 
theft, newspaper records show 
that in 1920 Orville Harring¬ 
ton, a longtime employee of 
the Mint, was arrested for 
stealing gold bullion by sneak¬ 
ing It out In his artificial leg. 


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COIN WORLD, Wednesday, April 15, 1987 

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TYPE COINS AND RARE DATES CONTINUED... 


li/IT HALF DOLLARS 

11210-101 VO 0 22 00 

1122 1 0-101 *2 VF-30 Me* for 

gr*ot moo 

1022/1 0-101 HI EF 40 Itlg 
eft* 100.00 

1122 0-104 EF-40 my chore* for 
gr*d* 07 SO 

1022 0-112 M AU-50 my thorp win 
modarat* toning, Rare Ihit 
met 22000 

1022 0-1 lit EF-40 MOO 

1024 1 0-101 EF-40 my chore* tor 
grad* 105 00 

1024 2/0 0-103 VF 20 05 00 

AtftaapjW 175 00 


BUST HALF OOUARS 

1020 AU 50 275 00 

1020-0 F-II ptaaaftig 220 00 

1020-0 VF-20 ptaawng coin 20500 
1020-0 VF-20 ptaaamg 220 00 

SEATED HALVES 


1030 “Ootorocht" half Judd-71 
2nd original <ft* Prool-40. A 
**ry protty F***r than 10 
known Another *x*mpl* war 
racontly auctionad for 
0200 00 5000 00 


1020 WO 0-4 10.00 

1042 LX) AU 50 my troaty 0 Meaty 

—-— Ml 


SEATEO HALVES 

1074 VF-20 eft* 20 00 

1074 EF-40 120 00 

1074 AU-00* »H • truck 0 lutlrout 

Difficult typ* coir 220 00 

1074-0 EF 45. wall (truck « 
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American Eagle 
larketing 
asses inspection 


rnett Anderson 

gton Bureau 


two moat controversial 
of the U.S. Mint’s gold 
jullion coin program — 
.ing only through bulk 
and purchasing some for- 
Id — have been given a 
imp of approval in two 
by the Treasury Depart- 
inspector general, 
ceting the gold and silver 
through major precious 
and coin dealers, states 
•ort, is consistent with the 
equirement to sell the 
to the public.” 
ng a small proportion of 
gold when newly mined 
•Id is not available in suf- 
quantity is ‘‘reasonable 
nerally in keeping with 
•Id Bullion Act of 1985,” 
ing to the second report. 

1 audits were completed 
1 of this year, but were not 
ted for publication until 
9. 


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The two policies examined in 
detail by the inspector general’s 
office have been under strong 
and repeated attack by Rep. 
Frank Annunzio, D-Ill., chair¬ 
man of the House Subcommittee 
on Consumer Affairs and Coin¬ 
age, which has general oversight 
responsibilities for the Mint. 

In an executive agency such as 
the Department of the Treasury, 
the inspector general serves as 
an internal watchdog over 
administration and procedures, 
with no direct line of responsi¬ 
bility to the Congress. However, 
the two reports are expected to 
strengthen the Mint’s position 
as it enters the third year of pro¬ 
duction and marketing of the 
gold and silver Eagles under the 
policies set by the Treasury Sec¬ 


retary. 

Further, Annunzio is giving up 
his chairmanship of the coinage 
subcommittee, raising the pros¬ 
pect that the long public battle 
over the two policies in question 
may soon come to an end. 

Annunzio has based his criti¬ 
cism of the Mint’s marketing 
program on the law’s require¬ 
ment to sell to the public, main¬ 
taining that it and a long legisla¬ 
tive history against monopoly 
private marketing of legal tender 
coins made it mandatory for the 
Mint to sell the bullion pieces 
directly to the public. 

Further, the subcommittee 
chairman has said repeatedly in 
committee hearings and on the 
House floor, the language on 
procurement of the gold bullion 


Pope's resignation 


returned by Reagan 


The resignation letter of Mint Director Donna Pope to 
President Reagan, among the hundreds requested from pres¬ 
idential appointees following the November election, was not 
accepted but returned to her by the President. 

Pope’s second five-year term, to which she was appointed 
by Reagan in 1986, runs until 1991, and she presumably 
may continue in office until that time. But Washington polit¬ 
ical observers believe that there may nevertheless be - 
change in the Mint directorship. 

Pope was co-chairman of the Ohio election committee for 
President-elect George Bush and campaigned actively for 
him in that state. 

She is likely to be offered another office by President Bush 
following his inauguration Jan. 20, according to these 
sources, and the Mint would thus acquire a new director 
early next year. 


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Despite charges that the U.S. Mint was avoldl 
the law authorizing "direct sales to the publh 
Eagle bullion coins, an audit by the Treasury 
Inspector general has approved the Mint's met 


for the program clearly limits it 
to newly mined U.S. gold (within 
the preceding 12 months of pur¬ 
chase) and drawing on govern¬ 
ment gold reserves to meet any 
shortfall. 

Under the procurement poli¬ 
cies established by the Treasury, 
said the report, newly mined 
U.S. gold would, indeed, be the 
primary source of bullion. 

But whc n a sufficient supply 
was unavailable, the statement 
of policy specified. *ihe second¬ 
ary soTTce ot gold would be only 
50 percent from government 
reserves and the other 50 per¬ 
cent from any eligible country 
under international trade agree¬ 
ments. 

‘‘The Act’s requirement to use 
newly mined U.S. gold as the 
primary source of gold appears 
to conflict with the provision of 
the Trade Agreement Act of 
1979, in which Congress 
approved the Agreement on 
Government Procurement of the 
GATT,” states the report. 


“That agree 
covered entitief 
another’s produ« 
treatment no lee 
accorded domes 
suppliers. 

“Treasury’ 
tempted to satis 
preference for 
prior U.S. inte 
obligations undt 

As for market 
approved bull 
quantities of m 
troy ounces of 
one-ounce silve 
authorizing 
“direct” sale, i 
audit 

The applicabl 
law for both gol 
was cited: “Thi 
sell the coins n 
subsection to 
price equal to 1 
of the bullion a 


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nvi r Post 


Tuesday, September 13,1988 


U.S. inspector reportedly assigned 
to Denver Mint asbestos dispute 


By Peter G. Chronis 

Derwor Po«t Stall Writer 

An agent of the Treasury De- 
rtment’s inspector general has 
en assigned to a case that may 
involve a disputed $1.8 million as¬ 
bestos removal project at the Den¬ 
ver Mint, The Denver Post has 
learned. 

A source close to the case re¬ 
ported that an inspector general 
staff member was present when 
depositions were taken for a law¬ 
suit involving the asbestos removal 
project. However, it’s uncertain 
that the investigation is focused on 
the contract issue, the source said. 

Probes criminal cases 

The inspector general’s office 
investigates criminal and other 
matters involving Treasury opera¬ 
tions. A government filing in the 
lawsuit criticizes the relationships 
between an officer of the losing 
| bidder and two members of the 
■ panel that awarded the bid. 

Although one staff member in 
the unit’s investigative office indi¬ 
cated that the probe was being 
handled by Special Agent Katie 
Lichtig, neither Lichtig nor an offi¬ 
cer assigned to Freedom of Infor¬ 
mation Act inquiries would com¬ 
ment on the case. Regulations 
forbid releasing data about on-go¬ 
ing investigations, an official said. 

The disputed contract, granted 
June 15 to LVI Knvironmental Ser¬ 
vices Inc. of Oklahoma City, al¬ 
ready has resulted in a lawsuit in 
U.S. District Court in Denver by A 
& B Asbestos Abatement Inc. of 
Grand Junction. 


The Grand Junction firm won a 
restraining order Aug. 11 from 
Chief U.S. District Judge Sherman 
Finesilver, who decreed that the 
project at the Denver Mint be halt¬ 
ed pending further litigation. A & B 
alleges that the contract was 
awarded to LVI even though the 
Colorado company was more quali¬ 
fied and had scored highest in a 
panel’s evaluation of bidders. 

A & B, which had bid $3.7 million 
to do the job, also claims in its suit 
that officials improperly pressured 
the selection panel to favor LVI. 

A L B, which previously had per¬ 
formed asbestos removal work at 
the mint, noted that the panel han¬ 
dling the contract used a point sys¬ 
tem to rank companies making 
bids. Under that system, the maxi¬ 
mum score possible was 100 points 
— 75 points on the technical evalu¬ 
ation and 25 points for costs. 

Although A & B had received the 
highest average score on the initial 
evaluation , LVI still got the job, 
Finesilver noted in his order. The 
job had been scheduled to begin 
June 17 but has not yet been start¬ 
ed. Among other things, however, 
A & B alleges that LVI brought as¬ 
bestos-contaminated equipment to 
the job site. 

Additionally, LVI had failed to 
disclose health and safety viola¬ 
tions in making its bid, which, A & 
B claimed, invalidated the winning 
bid. 

The Grand Junction firm also 
accused LVI of lacking sufficient 
trained personnel to do the job, in¬ 
cluding five ex-felons who alleged¬ 
ly are barred from working on 


mint property and a sixth worker 
who allegedly was wanted on a 
warrant and arrested at the mint. 

But in its trial brief, the govern¬ 
ment notes that A & B’s bid was 
twice as high as LVI’s. Also, the 
contracting process used was “ne¬ 
gotiated procurement,” which dif¬ 
fers from ordinary sealed bids be¬ 
cause the process allows bidders to 
suggest variations in the contract 
and to change bids after negotia¬ 
tions. 

Additionally, the government 
pretrial filing noted, panel mem¬ 
bers Marcy Nicks and Larry Car¬ 
penter gave A & B 19 and 15 points, 
respectively, more than any other 
contenders! The government cited 
what it alleges are “close ties” be¬ 
tween A & B project manager Rob¬ 
ert Kemp, Carpenter and Nicks. 

Referred clients 

Kemp is alleged to have bought 
lunches for Carpenter and to have 
suggested that Carpenter start an 
asbestos inspection business. The 
government also says Kemp refer¬ 
red clients to Carpenter at the 
same time the mint contract was 
being processed. 

“Mrs. Nicks, too, has admitted 
that she accepted lunches from A 
& B and that Mr. Kemp helped her 
and her husband in their move 
form one house to another,” the 
government filing said. 

The government also noted that 
the health and safety violations 
were not charged against LVI’s as¬ 
bestos removal unit but against an¬ 
other operation not related to as¬ 
bestos abatement. 




Tuesday, September 13, 1988 


THI Dln 


Denver & 


WHAT’S NEWS 


Council OKs 
hockey deal 

DENVER — A four-year con¬ 
tract with the new owners of the 
Denver Rangers hockey team, 
allowing the Rangers to continue 
to play at the Denver Coliseum, 
was unanimously approved by 
the City Council Monday night 

The deal reduces the Rangers’ 
rent in the first year, but it calls 
for higher rent in the third and 
fourth years of the contract The 
council also approved a contract 
with ARA Leisure Services to 
make improvements to the 
scoreboard and other facilities at 
the Coliseum as part of the deal. 

Also, the Rangers’ minor 
league hockey franchise was ap¬ 
proved by the board qf gover¬ 
nors of the International Hockey 
League on Monday. 

Fiscal fitness 
adds 7 jobs 

ENGLEWOOD - Hustling for 
attention and development dol¬ 
lars has paid off for this south 
suburban city, where seven city 
jobs will be added in the 1989 
budget presented Monday by 
Acting City Manager Pete Var¬ 
gas. Despite a metrowide eco¬ 
nomic slump that has affected 
the city’s commercial sector 
since 1984. Vareas asked the ntu 


have boarded a bus before offi¬ 
cers arrived Anyone with infor¬ 
mation is asked to call police, 
575-5722 

Suspect identified 
as parolee 

DENVER — A suspected hit- 
and-run driver shot during a 
scuffle with a Denver police ser¬ 
geant has been identified as a pa 
rolee awaiting a court hearing on 
other charges. David Salazar, 26, 
was wounded in the side and Sgt 
Michael Scanlon was shot in the 
finger during the scuffle Salur 
day in west Denver. Both were 
reported in fair condition. 

Last resident evicted 
from care center 

COLORADO SPRINGS - The 
last of 22 elderly residents was 
evicted Sunday from two Ramah 
Place Care Centers that closed 
because the operator failed to 
pay the owner $24,000 worth of 
rent Four agencies found homes 
for the residents, ages 65 to 90, 
over the weekend. 

Dons Gladden, who operated 
the facilities since 1986, said she 
still doesn't know when she will 
be able to pay the rent to owner 
Jacqueline Archer. Archer now 
wants to lease the two centers to 
someone who will operate them 


Denverii 

No garbage fees > 

By Jennifer Gavin 

0*nvw Po*l SUM Writer 

A tax increase of $43 or less a 
year is in store for the average 
Denver resident as Mayor Federi¬ 
co Pena proposes higher occupa¬ 
tional and properly taxes in his 
1988-89 budget, but fees for gar¬ 
bage collection are not on the hori¬ 
zon. 

The tax package, however, will 
be far smaller than what Pefia 
projected last month, sources said 
Monday. 

The mayor had said about $30 
million in increases would be 
needed to bring services, roads and 
parks up to par Now the total is 
likely to be $22 million or less 

The city also is banking on get¬ 
ting another $18 million a year 
through a proposed $150 million 
bond issue that will go before vot 


CO# 

Aging radios 
plague city’s 
firefighters 



















Rogky Mountain Now* Sunday Magazine 


Sun, Aug 14.1968, Darrvw, Colo 



Chtlt 
Danlele 
and (ha 
Hinge 
•applied 
main, for 
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By Dawn Donzor 

S OCIAL firecrackers 
were lighting up the 
night at the Denver 
Center Galleria re¬ 
cently The 1,000-plus parly 
animals braved unusually 
muggy weather to turn out in 
force for Summer in the City, 
s|H>nsorc<l by the Denver Cen¬ 
ter Players and benefitting 
the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 

Organizers of the July 30 event promised the night would be 
“heated up with fresh, hot music, cool libations, feverish dancing, 
succulent foods, warm tans and a few steamy glances." Well, I should 
hope so 

Some of the young glitterati, who gave the party a thumbs-up 
review, were Grrg Gorman, Jane Nelson, Kris Wllcn, Lloyd Boyer, 
Shellie Huston, Michael and Kimberly Porter, Lance Chayet, Diane 
Bruce, Nate Kckloff, Laurie Ksserman, Charlie Meyers, Joy Nlrdcr- 
huuscr, Joun Zubriskic. Pamela Millet. Mutu t uspuiiau. Ashley 
s\«vcm, siwi- Utuuuu. Unrhur* Miukuy, Heine llrlrkcll and Bob 
OtoMrvtag the snazzy crowd, Wyomingite Gene Downer 
quipped. "The women in Denver arc OK if you like them young and 
beautiful" 

What do Herbert Hoover, Aldous Huxley, Lucille Ball and Franklin 
Burns have in common? They ure all Lcos, and, according to It’s All In 
the Stars by Zolar "They possess a warmhearted, shy and sensitive 
disposition and show a great aptitude for making money for them¬ 
selves and their associates." 

Yep, that’s our Frank. 

Burns, one of the city's most respected and successful business 
leaders, celebrated his 74th birthday Aug. 1 in his palatial offices, 
which arc bigger than Baltimore. Rita Prairie, his secretary for 34 
years, arranged for a helicopter to fly around the penthouse wishing 
Colorado (it became a state on the same date in 1876) and Frank a 
happy birthday. 

"If I’d known that the governor couldn’t make it to the party, Mr 
Burns would have had top billing," she joked 
There were names at this gathering thut would make Gotsby's guest 
list look dull Bob Malone (banking), Jim Baldwin (groceries), Dick 
Robinson (milk), Jerry Kennedy (law and order), (Cynthia Grassby 
Baker (money), King Shwayder (money and suitcases), Temple Buell 
(money and shopping centers), Charlie Gates (money and tires), 
Natalie Meyer, Paul Powers, Merilyn Handley and Bill Owens (poli¬ 
tics) and, most important of all, Joy Burns (wife). 

France’s wild child, Christian Lacroix, and Denver’s wild woman, 
Irene Zarlengo, were responsible for helping raise more than $75,000 
for the Samaritan House. The city’s most profitable fashion extrava¬ 
ganza, held at the Hyatt Regency Denver on Aug. 4, was chaired by 
Zarlengo with the help of Madeline McFadden, Mary Ann Sheridan, 
Dee Mellor, Cathy Rinker, Elizabeth Tamaresls and Renu Andrews 
The show, presented by the Samaritan House Guild and Montuldo's, 
featured collections from the three hottest couturiers of the decade: 
Italy's distinguished Valentino, France’s prince of prints, Emmanuel 
Ungaro, and the mad maverick, laicroix. The economy may be the 
pits, dearie, but one thing is clear: Conspicuous consumption is still in 
style In some circles. Which would you prefer 7 A simple little 
sleeveless Lacroix knit or to send your first-born to Yale for a year? 
One ethnic-inspired number boasted u price tag of $15,000, but think 
of it this way: If you spring for five Lacroix dresses, you get a 10% 
discount. 

On a more somber note, the afternoon was dedicated to the memory 
of I)r. Robert Mellor, who had touched the lives of many in the 
audience. He was greatly missed, but would have heartily approved of 
the event 

Photoa by Ron DIRIto 


Down Denier, above left, It with Rove Powere. "Tummy trio" Includes Phoebe Johneon, Don Alektiewicx end Megan Johneon. 


Click! 


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Mike Dilnba, Laurie Etaerman, Pat Lee and Barbara Stine at Denver Center baeh, top center 
Cynthle Qraaeby Baker and huaband Paul, above, et Burnt party Montaldo’t manager Dorothy 
Wallace, left In photo at top right, and VI Chapin, right, with model Linda Karlin. Model Janie 
Harrington, right, and Montaldo'e couture buyer, Sara-Lynne Seltavage 


Cathy Rinker and Irene Zarlengo, left, at taehlon ovent; Frank Burnt and Mayor Federico Peha 

























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R&Mthis and you’ll understand why’ 


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Man \\ ho Wins $8000 Shopping Spree Says 
"My First Stop Was This Furniture Store 
Because They Have Giveaway Prices 
On Almost Everything!" 


It you're getting ready to buy new fur¬ 
niture. and you need n now. here's some¬ 
thing you Should know 

Buying new furniture car cost you a 
tot less than you might think! 

Listen; If you're a smart shopper and 
knew where to buy your new furniture oc 
you realize you may very wefl~. 

Save Hundreds And 
Even Thousands Of 
Dollars On Your Next 
Furniture Purchase! 

Keep reading and youTl find out how 
Mr Mike DrGiovanni entered a con¬ 
test from a local radio station and was sur¬ 
prised to find out he won an $8000 shop¬ 
ping spree. 

He was allowed to spend this money 
any way he wanted to. But he only had 
one day to do it? 

Guess what? 

The first thing he wanted most was 
new furniture for hs living room Before 
the shoppmo spree started he went to al¬ 
most every furniture store *n town 

fche-r afl was sa*J and done here's 
what he said. "I looked and looked, and 
only one furniture store had the quality and 
value I wanted And, it was recommended 
to me by ail my fnends and co-workers. It 
was al true Plus, we got great service 
from our salesperson. Barbara Grahamr 
Mike consders himself a smart shop¬ 
per He teamed a tot going from store to 
store to find the living room, furniture he 
wanted the most 

He coukfve spent his money any¬ 
where. not canng about the pnce. the 
quality, or the styling. But. he didn't! 

He Wisely Shopped 
Before Making His 
Final Decision! 

He wanted to make sure this money 
went as far as possible...even though it 
was free! 

Where was his first stop after he went 
to the bank to get his money? It just hap¬ 
pened to be Kacey Fine Furniture, owned 
by Leslie Fishbein. 

Of all the stores he shopped, only 
Leslie’s stores had the three things he 
wanted the most Good quality, the best 
styling, and the lowest prices* 

There’s an easy way to find out if 
these stores should be your place to shop. 
Don’t spend a dime for new furniture, until 
you visit a Kacey Fine Furniture show¬ 
room. Here are a few reasons why: 

Over $1,000,000 In 
Discounts On Every 
Item In Inventory! 

Every single item in Leslie’s inven¬ 
tory is reduced at pnces you’re going to 
love Not the extra 5 or 10% off you might 
get at other stores. But savings of 30.40, 
and even 50% off the retail on every piece! 

And, you’re going to find everything 


you couto possibly wart lor any room in 
your home. 

Lesfae and her husband Sam. per¬ 
sonally travel to most major markets in the 
world and took at thousands and thou¬ 
sands o# peces of furniture. Not until *>en 
do they aeode which items are good 
enough for their stores to cany 

Other stores carry some items cvDy 
because they can sell them for a t*g profit. 
Sam and Lesfie buy furniture only ff they 
feel its good enough to put to their own 


Here's How Much 
You'll Save On Every 
Dining Room And Bedroom.' 

You’re going to save at feast 1/3 and 
up to 1/2 on every p«ece m stock' And. 
you’ll find every style you want at each of 
Lesie’s three stores 

Take your choice of dmnq rooms 
and bedrooms to traditional 18th Century 
Country. Modem. Chinese. Southwest 
Contemporary, and much more! 

You’D find the newest and best built 
styles to sold oak, sofcd cherry, sohd wal¬ 
nut pecan, brass and glass. Itakan marble. 
r*Qh gloss laminates ano a lot more* 

Which Famous Brands 

Are Included? 

You’ll find famous names like White 
of Mebane, Flair, Bernhardt Stanley. EDo. 
Salem House, Cardinal and American 
Drew, just to name a few. 

But what if you don't find the set you 
like? The answer is simple: If what you're 
looking for isn't to Leslie's huge inventory, 
you can special order any piece or set you 
want Just look through her huge library of 
color catalogs You’D still save at least 1/3. 
and, in many cases, up to 40% off! 

If you're dining room or bedroom 
needs a new look (right now), there are tots 
of styles in stock for immediate delivery or 
pick-up! 

Selected Floor Samples 
Are Even Included 
At 1/2 Price! 

Don’t wait! You never know. That 
special dining room or bedroom set you 
had your "eye" on may be gone before you 
know it* Come to now and take advantage 
of the big selection and the tremendous 
bargains. 

Here's How Much 
You'll Save On 
Everything You Need 
For Your Living Room! 

Save at least 1/3 and up to 1/2 on 
every top gram leather piece for your living 
room or family room. Save at least 20% 
and up to 1/2 on every style covered in 
tabnc 

If you need a new sofa, loveseat, 
chair, rediner, sofa steeper, or sectional in 



Mike DeGiovanm. and his fiancee. Jayne 

ise stuifed with $8000 in cash' Standing vri 
Enouune) a Leslie Ftshbem owner of Kacey 


Of all ine mom Mike k 
Why 3 Because as they Mud "only Leslie's 


your favonte tabnc or in top gram feather. 
Leslie's selection of colors and fabrics is 
second to none. 

Save on famous brands ifce Ftexsted. 
Highgland House. Natuzzi. Sefcg. Flair, 
and many more Every single style you 
can imagine is toduded. You can have 
whatever you want from Leslie's large in¬ 
ventory. 

Or. special order the tabnc (or teater) 
and style just right for you. The service is 
yours at no extra charge* 

Selected floor samples are included 
at 1/2 pnce So. if you’re m a hurry and 
need something today, don't wa.t* 

Stop to now* But do it before aD the 
best buys are gone* 

Unbelieveable Prices 
On Solid Cast Brass 
Table Lamps! 

Leslie just got to a large shipment of 
solid cast brass table lamps with hand¬ 
made shades. 

These shiny solid brass lamps could 
cost you up to $300 anywhere else But. at 
Kacey Fme Furniture, you can take your 
choice of any lamp for only $69 to $99* 

Quantities are limited on this special 
buy. so don't delay if you want an incred¬ 
ible deal on a solid brass lamp* 

Giveaway Prices on 
Sealv Po'sturepedic 
Mattress Sets! 

You constantly see mattresses ad¬ 
vertised tor 50% off. 

At Kacey Fine Furniture they go one 


ily Pc 

|pedfcsetyouiOTtfoariysfee)(or20%off 

everyone ease's 50% off* 

Is your oW. lumpy mattress keeping 
you up at nght? Why not get te number 
one setting mattress m Amenca nght now? 
An entire truckload just amved Get one 
lor yourself while they are still available* 

Everyone Likes To 
Show Off Just 
A Little Bit! 

How about you? You'D be surprised 
to find out how tittle it costs to be te envy 
of afl your friends and neighbors? Can you 
tfunk of a better way than with a room fufi 
(or house full) of beautiful new furniture? 

Here's te best part Your fnends 
don’t have to know how tittle you pad* 

Mike DeGiovnanm proved it to him¬ 
self So can you Do it now' 

AH Three Stores 
Offer The Following: 

Great looking furniture, terrific qual¬ 
ity. and pnces the competition is finding 
hard to beat* 

Stop by Kacey Fine Furniture today 
In Denver, at 1201 Wazee St In Lakewood 
at 11305 W 6th Ave Or. m Frisco, at 695 
North Summit Btvd 

The Downtown and Lakewood stores 
are open 10-8 Mon -Fn . Sat 10 -6. and 
Sun . noon to 5 The Fnsco store t$ open 
Mon-Sat. from 10-5. 

Take advantage of the best selec¬ 
tion and the biggest savings while they 
last You’ll be glad you dd Thank you 























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*** weres real trouDle inside th e Mint. 

WHO’S MINDING THE MINT? 

Not the security officers. They’re too busy 
fighting with their bosses. 

BY BRYAN ABAS 


Union boss Don Solano says morale’s never been worse in the Mint security division. 


The Denver Mint’s security force 
mobilized at the first sign a crime had 
been committed. The crime scene was 
cordoned off. The team’s fulltime 
detective was assigned to identify and 
apprehend the culprit. A locker-by¬ 
locker search for evidence was 
launched. 

The Mint is no place for slow or 
sloppy police work. There’s a lot of gold 
bullion stored inside, not to mention 
millions of new coins. That’s why the 
security officers aren’t just guards, 
but armed policemen with die power to 
make arrests at the drop of a penny. 

Yet no arrests have been made in the 
latest case to confound security division 
chief Norm Wallace. So far, the 
employee, contractor or visitor who 
stepped in the wet paint on the forklift 
several weeks ago is still unidentified. 

Those who know how the Mint’s 
security division operates aren’t 
surprised. There’s so much rancor 
between officers and supervisors, 
employees say, that if it weren’t for 
die dedication of the rank and file, the 
division would have trouble finding 
a truckload of missing coins, let alone 
protecting the Rocky Mountain 


equivalent of Fort Knox. 

When division managers aren’t busy 
dealing with internal strife, they’re 
making a federal case out of an 
inconsequential mishap. “It’s crazy," one 
longtime Mint employee says. “If they 
were really concerned about security, 
they wouldn’t be acting like a simple 
case of someone accidentally stepping 
in, paint was something done 
niischievously. Give me a break. Repaint 
the forklift and get on with it What 
were they going to do with the person 
responsible even if they did catch him?” 

And what would they do if they had 
a real emergency? 

IJKE THE ONE in December 1922, 
when guards transferring $200,000 in 
five-dollar bills to a truck outside 
the Mint were ambushed by a gang of 
gun-wielding robbers. One guard was 
killed. The robbers fled with the 
loot—never to be identified or captured. 

There haven’t been any armed 
robbery attempts since, but Mint 
officials sense other threats today. ^With 
the escalation of international terrorism, 
our sphere of expertise must go beyond 
deadbolt locks and security alarm 
systems," Denver Mint security chief 
Wallace wrote in his budget proposal for 
this fiscal year. “We cannot assume that 
the Denver Mint will not be a future 
target of Third World causes or 
mentally unstable individuals." 

The Mint is an inviting target It 
doesn’t store cash anymore, but it 
produces 32 million coins a day—more 
than any other mint in the world—and it 
stores millions of ounces of gold bullion. 

In the 1930s, war rumors prompted 
the feds to transfer $2.5 billion in gold 
bricks from San Francisco to Denver. 
Subsequent shipments have pushed the 

third-largest gold depository in the 
country (Fort Knox has 147 million 
ounces. West Point 57 million). 

With gold currently selling at about 
$360 an ounce, the Denver Mints haul 
is worth nearly $16 billion. 

To protect it the Denver Mint 
employs about fifty security officers. 
They’re supervised by a staff of three 
sergeants, who report to three 
lieutenants, who report to a security 
chief and an assistant. There’s also 
a detective. 

With only a city block to guard, that 
sounds like a formidable force. But the 
Mint operates around the clock. Once 
the security force is spread over three 
shifts, coverage can get thin, particularly 
during the busy summer months. Last 
year a quarter-of-a-million visitors 
passed through the Mint, with crowds 
of several hundred at a time. It’s 
Denver’s most popular tourist attraction. 

In fact, the Denver Mint has the 
smallest security force of the five U S 
Mints, even though it has more 
entrances and exits than the others— 
including two entrances each for 
employees and visitors, two loading 
docks and six vehicle gates. 

But security threats don’t always 
originate on the outside. Over the years 
several Mint employees have gone for 
the gold. 

Omlle Harrington managed to sneak 
about $90,000 of it out of the Mint in 
19i9 and 1920, hiding the gold bars in 
his hollow wooden leg. He was caught 
So was Geraldo Chavez, convicted of 
stealing $20 in quarters in 1982. 

,,Two years ago a thief turned up in the 
Mint s most sensitive division: security. 
Robert Kendall, a Mint officer for two 
years, was caught stealing about $1,000 
worth of very shiny quarters. The teller 
continued on page 12 















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million for the facility in July; its House 
counterpart went along for $500,000. 

The difference will be reconciled by 
a conference committee later this 
month. 

Synfuels’ critics are surprised by the 
renewed interest in the industry. “It 
sounds like the nightmare of synfuels 
that we finally managed to get rid of 
a few years ago,” says Tom Lustig, 
staff attorney with the National Wildlife 
Federation Resource Clinic in Boulder. 

Although the Sierra Club hasn’t taken 
a position on the subsidy, Kirk 
Cunningham, the former conservation 
chair of the club’s Rocky Mountain 
chapter, doesn’t like it “If oil shale is 
an economically viable industry, it can 
put its own money into research,” he 
says. 

The handout particularly galls critics 
because during the past few years about 
100,000 acres of publicly owned oil 
shale land have been purchased at 
prices well below market value thanks 
to a century-old mining law. Some of 
those buyers then made millions selling 
the land to oil companies. 

“Even when we practically give them 
the land, they still can't develop 
the resource unless the government 


subsidizes them,” Lustig complains. 

“To give the land away and then give 
them money so they can do something 
with it is to compound a sin with a sin.” 

If anything, the case for developing 
‘ synfuels is weaker than it was a decade 
ago. While the U.S. was once beholden 
to a powerful oil cartel, now OPEC is 
weak and unable to control oil prices. 
And since there’s more concern over 
global wanning than energy 
independence, oil shale is a less 
attractive option because burning oil 
creates more carbon dioxide that 
damages the atmosphere. 

Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth has been 
the Congressional leader in the fight 
against global warming. Nevertheless, 
he’s backing the new oil shale subsidy, 
as are Sen. William Armstrong and Rep. 
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, whose 


SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER3.1989-WESTVVORD-PAGE 9 


district covers northwest Colorado. 

Campbell spokeswoman Carol Knight 
says that although the congressman 
opposes selling oil shale land at fire-sale 
prices, he supports developing the shale 
industry and is willing to federally 
subsidize it Energy independence is 
still an important goal, she explains. 

Jim Evans, director of the Associated 
Governments of Northwest Colorado, 
says subsidies are necessary to develop 
the industry because most of the oil 
shale is on federal land. 

Developers can lease the land, but 
there’s no reason to wait for oil 
companies to make a move, Evans says. 
“If we do nothing, as soon as there’s 
another oil crisis everyone will get back 
in the business and we’ll have another 
chapter in the boom and bust cycle,” he 


says. “We’ve already had four of those. 
This time we’re going to have a steady, 
rational development approach." 

Funded in part by taxpayers. In 
addition to federal money, the project 
will need about $30 million in state 
funds. Sponsors haven’t decided 
whether to seek a state appropriation or 
ask the Colorado legislature to divert 
the project’s royalties from the state 
treasury, Evans says. 

The investment is a good one, Knight 
says, because unlike the synfuels 
boondoggle that funded commercial- 
scale operations, the proposed 
appropriation goes to a pilot project 
designed to develop the technology. 

Oil companies haven’t asked the feds 
to subsidize full-scale operations—not 
yet, anyway. 

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MINT 


continuedfrom page 10 
at the bank where he deposited the 
coins got suspicious; that triggered 
a probe that nabbed Kendall. He’d 
somehow managed to slip a fifty-pound 
bag of money out of the Mint, evading 
metal detectors that all employees are 
supposed to pass through as they leave 
work. 

“I’m not sure how he got it out,” 
then-deputy superintendent Duane 
Sjaardema acknowledged. 

Mint security police might have been 
a tad distracted. At the time, the force 
was in the midst of a full-scale revolt, 
with officers and managers trading 
charges of favoritism, unfair 


promotions, misuse of funds, lack of 

leadership and communication, and 
failure to share information in criminal 
conduct investigations. 

Some of the complaints were petty, 
others serious. One accused Mint 
security supervisors of bungling 
a criminal probe with an illegal search. 
Another alleged that employees caught 
stealing were disciplined 
administratively instead of prosecuted. 

Part of the problem is that the Mint 
is run by a superintendent who is 
a political appointee with no prior 
knowledge of Mint operations. That 
leaves the real bureaucratic power in 
the hands of division managers, who 
operate with impunity because they run 
circles around the superintendent. 

‘They can pretty much write their own 
ticket if Washington lets them,” explains 


Don Solano, a Mint employee for 
eighteen years and president since 1980 
of its union, a chapter of the American 
Federation of Government Employees. 

In the security division, the lack of 
a strong superintendent is compounded 
by resentment between new and 
veteran officers. 

For decades the Mint used only 
armed security guards. Then in the 
1970s, in an effort to boost the quality 
of its force, the Mint required that 
applicants have a relevant college 
degree or three years of police 
experience, and that officers take 
training courses similar to those for 
federal marshals and border patrol 
agents. Since 1979, Mint security 
officers have had authority comparable 
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to arrest The newer members feel 
some of the veterans stdl behave like 
glorified jail guards. -They don t „ 
understand proper police practice, 
notes one of the new recruits. 

There has been racial resentment, 
too. In 1987 some white officers 
complained that then-security c * 1 J e . , 

William Pulliam, a black, was unfairly 
promoting black officers. 

Solano’s concern grew as 
on the force escalated. He says he tae 
of several alarming incidents between 
security officers and supervisors, 
including one dispute in which two 
officers had their hands on their guns, 
ready to draw and fire. “There was a lot 
of hollering and namecalling going on, 
Solano recalls. “When one of them 
threatened to shoot up the damn place, 

I realized the seriousness of the 
problem.” , , . 

In part because of Solano s pleas, 

Pulliam and then-Denver Mint 
Superintendent Nora Hussey agreed in 
June 1987 to ask the inspector general 
of the U.S. Treasury Department to 

investigate. At the hearings that 

followed, security officers vented their 
frustrations. “There was an awful lot 
of bitching and moaning," Solano says. 

Over the years several Mint 

employees have gone for the 

gold- _____ 

“I thought 1 was going to walk into 

those hearings one day and see 
a shootout at the OK Corral.” 

Later that year the inspector general 
issued a report. Mint officials refuse 
to comment on or release it, but one 
lieutenant was suspended for ninety 
days and Chief Pulliam was transferred 
to San Francisco. 

GOP POLITICAL OPPRmvK and Coors 
friend Cynthia Grassby Baker was 
s elected superintendent of the Denver 
Mint in September 1987 to replace 
Hussey, who had resigned. Bakers 
primary claim to fame at the time was 
the accusation by congressional 
investigators that she’d mismanaged 
a federal humanities endowment by 
spending more money than she’d 
raised. She denied the chaise, saying 
investigators were misreading the 
numbers. Baker had left the endowment 
by the time the congressional report 
was issued, so no action was taken 
against her. . 

Baker and U.S. Mint security chief 
William Daddio appointed Wallace, 
a Secret Service veteran, to be the 
Denver security chief in late ’87. Wallace 
declined to be interviewed by Westword , 
and Baker did not respond to a request 
for comment last week. 

Wallace’s experience didn’t help calm 
the troubled security division. 

Grievances and discrimination 
complaints are still filed regularly; more 
than two dozen are pending. The 
problem, Solano says, is that officers 
aren’t given any opportunity to 
comment on division policy, including 
performance evaluation standards. 

When officers are denied promotions 
or salary hikes for what they consider 
arbitrary reasons, they strike back with 
the only tools they have: grievances and 
discrimination complaints. 

They have good reason to be upset. 
Solano explains. Wallace has adopted 
performance evaluation standards based 
in part on how many arrests officers 
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them to their owners once the Mint tour 
is completed. 

One officer says he’s petrified of 
someday being held accountable for 
what a Mint visitor does after retrieving 
a weapon. “If that person goes nuts and 
kills somebody with that gun, it would 
be our responsibility,” he explains. 

Preferential treatment for 
administrators also undermines Mint 
security, critics say. Wallace issued 
a written order soon after his arrival that 
neither he nor Baker had to go through 
the metal detectors when entering or 
leaving. He later verbally modified that 
decision to give officers the option 
of excusing certain people from the 
procedure. 

And Wallace regularly visits 
production areas without wearing the 
required shoes, eyewear and earplugs. 
That habit prompted a formal complaint 
from production supervisors. “I can’t get 
people to obey safety rules because they 
say, ‘If I have to do it, why doesn’t 
Wallace?’” one veteran supervisor says. 
“Rules around here apply only to the 
peons. The uppers don’t comply with 
anything, not even safety rules.” 

Employees favored by management 
also get preferential treatment Some 
officers regularly sleep on the job 
without feeing discipline, critics say. 

And others aren’t prosecuted when they 
should be. One employee who shoved 
another after he renised to participate 
in an award ceremony at Baker's office 
in April escaped any form of 
punishment Some officers familiar with 
the case say the employee should have 
faced an assault charge. 

overreacting has prompted 
some employees to dub Mm 
“Stormin' Normin," _ 

Frustrated officers are going around 

Wallace these days by filing reports with 
the inspector general’s office. The 
pushing incident was handled that way. 

So was a report describing what officers 
say is evidence of theft by the Mint’s 
janitorial firm. No action has been 
taken, they charge, because the theft 
is occurring with the support of Mint 
supervisors. “Things like this have been 
going on for years,” one disgruntled 
officer says. “It’s the way they do 
business around here.” 

Some Mint employees are also galled 
by Wallace’s misdirected energy on 
trivial matters. The all-out probe of the 
wet-paint incident is one example. His 
decision to confiscate coins from 


SEPTEMBER27-OCTOBER3,1989-WESTWORP-PAGE15 


employees is another. Workers aren’t 

allowed to take their own coins into 
work, but sometimes they forget. 

Before Wallace’s tenure, employees 
arriving for work with coins in their 
pockets had to turn them in but got 
them back at the end of the day. But 
for several months last year Wallace 
refused to return the money. The policy 
was changed after Solano and others 
complained, but Solano says he’s still 
trying to account for about $200. 

Wallace’s habit of overreacting has 
prompted some employees to dub him 
“Stormin’ Normin.” 

BAKER RESIGNED AS Mint director in 
April. Her successor, Barbara McTurk, 
is awaiting Senate confirmation. If 


approved, McTurk will be another 
superintendent with no prior experience 
relevant to the Mint. She worked at the 
Jefferson County Community Center for 
the Developmentally Disabled and 
served as the Colorado field director 
to George Bush’s presidential 
campaign. The Denver Mint is being 
run by an official from the Philadelphia 
Mint in the meantime. 

Wallace referred all Westword s 
questions to U.S. Mint security chief 
Daddio in Washington, D.C.; the Mint’s 
public information officer denied 
a request for an interview. Westword 
submitted several questions about 
Denvers security division, but Daddio 
didn’t respond. Denver Mint employees 
say Daddio backs Wallace and seems to 
think there’s no problem Wallace can’t 
handle. 


But some workers are convinced 
there’s one job Wallace can’t handle: 
protecting the Mint. “Nobody in 
security takes their job seriously 
anymore,” says a veteran supervisor in 
another division. “There are a lot of 
dedicated officers over there, but 
they’ve been shit on so much, that’s 
their attitude ” 

“There’s so much complacency here,’ 
one officer says, “that if something 
serious were to happen, there’s no 
way we’d be able to respond to it 
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CRYSTAL 
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Lou Wright has 
seen the 
future—and 
she’s wrong. 

BY GIL 
ASAKAWA 

The cafler stamrrxTV i insure whether 
*htr'% on the air. “I/aj, rny r^-srion » 
to yot j. I'm in fove with a man named 
Chm. and he * in fove with me. Do you 
•ee th» as anythin# tta* could be 
workable^ 

“Permanent, can 00 to marriage, very 
workable. Pray a kit give it a lot of time 
and be patient' replfo** psychic Lou 
WrighL She answers rjuiddy, starting 
before the question's finished. 

Every Sunday night caflers eagerly 
await their chance to test W right's 
abilities on KYGO, the (/Aintry-musk 
radio station where she hosts a weddy 
talk show Much of the air-time is 
devoted to interviews w*h special 
guesLs, but the rest goes to fatenerv 
Wright's fans ask her advice on how 
to orgamze their Ives. oMticulariy 
fenanciafty and n/manucafly— her 
«cecialf ies- During breaks in the action. 

Wright pilches her prwsie practice., 
icrving her twrriber and avcriac 

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SJj p*~r h*JHujur j ii wa rn 

kXtowrr* thunk she s worth 
rf Th/ psychic has been doing her 
Denver show for afmost a decade, and 
she is regularly quc4ed in the Satumal 
Enquirer She% ceriainiy the most 
visible pregnosticalor in Denver, 
a town renowned for the size and 
strength of its metaphysical community. 

Dar Emme. a Westminster psychic 
whose family runs the Colorado Psychic 
Center, estimates that the dozen p^chic 
organiz^ions operating in the area have 
over 75 /)00 names on their mailing fat*- 
“We're a smaS center, and we have 
6/JQO names on our feL' die say*- “The 


k way bealfo and growing by 
laps and bounds. The new^ge and 
metaphysical movernents ae drawn to 
the re«n. she says, because' of its 
central Vacation, geographic purity and 
spiritual history with "sues that are 
sacred to Saar/*- Americans; it's been_ 
a special place for many generations." 

Denver's /<xx! vibrations are so 
Wren g that the area averages one pwbfic 
psychic fair a month. Dar Emme says. 
That's where the community comes 



-x afl of the community, thcaigfr- 
'Lou Wright used io do psychic fairs.' 
says Liar's husband. Dale, also a 
psychic “Sow die considers herself 
better than the rest of us. 1 respect the 
worm, but she comes across as very 
pompous and a knowk-afi to other 
psychics' 

But Wnght could never have 
predicted hr/w her own love ife would 
turn out Wrighr's romantic instincts 
haw failed her four times—at fifty-two, 
dies on her fifth marriage And the 
men she's left behind aren't satisfied 
customers. One is already wing to 


r the <fivoroe settlement. dawning 
Wright engaged in some unpredku&le 
financed shenanigans; another 
exhusband is threatening to do 
the same. 

Dick Deubei a Lakewood realtor who 
was married to Wright from 1900 to 
L9te, isn’t enchanted with his ex-wife's 
psychic powers. “At this point, HI agree 
that she is phony" he says 

Deubei has filed a motion in Jefferson 
County asking that the couple s dnorce 
settfement from last year be nufified. 

He took Wright's word on how much 


discarded and “a fair amount of 
maintenance be awarded.' 

Since Deixbef handled Lou Wright 
Enterprises' financial records be was 
wefi aware of Wrights facr«ne. her 
attorney says, fax turn. Wright accuses 
her former husband of harassment. 


$281 a week, $L20D a month—wfien he 
fiSed out the couple's divorce settlement 
last year. Deubei says. 

In the motion, which is set for an 

October hearing. Deubd claims Wright 
made more than SlOjOOO a month. And 
be wants some of it. 

Deubd is asking for a redfctrfoution 
of property from the couple's eight-year 
marriage, aid requesting that the 
waiver of maintenance he signed be 


j business records, fc early 
Au gust she obtamed a restraining order 
prohibiting Deubd foam gomg near her. 

Lou Wright could never have 
predicted how her o wn love 
life would turn out. 

M- _ 1 -1-*- 1 -* - . CT.* * i . _ . J 

Deuce* oenaes Harassing *i ng££. anr. 
dawns he's had his own share of 
harassing phone cafis. He has some of 
her busmess records, he says, but 
found them m the trash outside her 
office last summer, when he firs: 
became suspicious of her stated mcorae. 
k his dmnpster-dmng, Deubei came op 
with an appointment calendar for the 
month of August that shows Wright 


averaged tea 1 
a day. Alcaide thee 

_ - ^ . 

CODsTUK < 

is one week. Wright made S3JTO 
predetiog dae futore. 

It never occsrred to me that she 
yaking that arfe money, act rea£y ~ 
he «zys It's a crazy bessat and 
I know she had expenses. K fefc she 
probably made a fiide more thae that 
and pocketed a. bnt aot esr.ugh so 


origgai serfemera papers. Denbd issed 
Wrights kaoooe as >281 a week 
beca^r “that s what axe told ae she 
made,* he exposes. 

Aker ac inridfat ■ wiad x Wnght 
accased tan d “spying' os her. Deabei 
who kept die cccapasy's books. wasa\ 
eves aiowed at las ife's office and had 
to surrender his keys, he szy^ T weni 
along wsh her aties wju're n^aried. 
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jyf IRACLE SHOT 

Cancer changes the rules in the game of life 



The Denver Pom j Maureen Seance 


He could play defensively, avoid the operation, and be assured 
that he would live for a while. Or he could gamble and go for the 
tough shot and risk everything. 


the stomach, the spleen, and part 

of the esophagus. Things \oohed 


S O what’s it going to be? 
The surgeon explained 
the options to the old 
man. 

You have cancer of the liver, 
the esophagus and the stomach. 
We can’t do much about the 
liver. But we can take the 
stomach out. You could live 
longer — six months, a year, 
maybe more. You’ll be on a 
soft-foods diet. If we don’t 
operate, you’re going to have 
more pain. 

But the 
choice is 
harder than 
that. This 
could be a 
traumatic 
surgery for an 
80-year-old 

body, and it will last five hours. 
There are dangers lurking like 
land mines: the anesthesia, the 
shock to the body, the possible 
complications. There’s a 50-50 
chance that you’ll die on the 
operating table. 

It was July 4, Independence 
Day, and my father looked at Dr. 
Morales. This was the biggest 
independent decision he would 
make since he got married 42 
years ago. 

“The thing is, I feel fine,” he 
said, mystified by the cancer 

fjttinj? through hije 1 

could still pass for 65; he still 
mowed the lawn and shoveled 
the snow. “I don’t have any pain. 

I have gardening to do.” 

And like an old pool player, 
my father eyed the table and 
tried to figure out how he could 
win this game. 

He was the classic Irish 
Catholic son, devoted to a 
mother who was bedridden for 
years. He took care of her every 
day. It was only after she died 
that he met my mother and got 
married. He was 38. 

Since then my mother handled 


most of the decisions. Budgeting 
the money, planning family 
trips, taking care of school 
problems, Christmas gifts — 
these were all under the 
matriarch’s domain. 

He played life more 
defensively than she, staying 
with one company for most of 
his adult life, working a 
blue-collar job, never advancing 
into management or opening his 
own business, and rarely 
traveling. 

Every evening at 5 p.m. he 
came home to a hot dinner, cold 
beer and the security that things 
were taken care of by his wife. 

And in retirement he liked the 
simple things: working in his 
garden, reading the sports pages 
and playing with the dog. He 
didn’t like to travel. He would 
rather play his Mario Lanza 
records and read a gardening 
book than see Venice or 
Florence. Florence who, he’d 
joke. It’s hot in Italy, and 
anyway some punk would 
probably try to steal my wallet. 

He liked to shoot a few games 
of pool, and the family members’ 
styles were telling. My brother is 
flamboyant and fast, and it was 
a thrill to watch him break the 
triangle of balls. 

I am slower and more 

^or^brfl). analyxins tho 

geometry of each situation until 
the mathematics leave me 
confused. My mother plays a 
good, uncomplicated game 
despite her poor eyesight. 

My father plays defensively, 
making other players grit their 
teeth as he slips the cue ball 
down the end of the table, gently 
bumping a ball or two and 
separating it from a key shot his 
opponents want to make. When 
he does sink a ball, he does it 
slowly, and by the time the cue 
ball rolls down the carpet of 
green toward the lonely 9 ball, 


vou could have walked up to the 

kitchen, gotten a beer out of the 

fridge, patted the dog, called for 
a pizza, and walked back down 
to see the 9 ball drop in the 
corner pocket. 

But this talk about an 
operation, this was a tricky shot. 
The old man looked at Dr. 
Morales. He could play 
defensively, avoid the operation, 
and be assured that he would 
live for a while. Or he could 
gamble and go for the tough shot 
and risk everything. 

After a pause, and with no 


help from his wife, he told Dr 

Morales he wanted the 

operation. He decided to become 
an offensive player. 

He wanted more time to work 
in the garden, more time to be 
with his wife. It was worth the 
risk. 

Sometimes, he said, miracles 
occur. Look at the upstart 
no-name Orioles. They might go 
to the World Series, and he had 
to see that. Let’s shoot for a 
miracle. 

He was wheeled into the 
operating room the next day in 
fine spirits. Dr. Morales took out 


worse than Morales thought. 

But he survived the operation. 
The surgeon marveled at how 
strong the old man was. “I’ll be 
back in the garden in a few 
weeks,” the old man had said 
before surgery. 

There was work still to be 
done, more tomatoes to harvest, 
and more games of pool to shoot. 
He was getting pretty good with 
that stick. 

David McQuay is a Denver Post 
Staff writer. 



INSIDE CONTEMPORARY 

story 


Looking for some cheap thrills 
this summer? The cheapskates in 
the features department have di¬ 
vulged their favorite ones that 
will entertain you at little or no 
cost. Page 12. 


Cover 



16 


By Tracy Seipel 

Short hair is wnere it’s at for 
women this summer. And if 
you’re a little more gutsy than 
the woman at the next desk, you 
can get a really short cut. 



6 _ 

DAVE BARRY 

The humorist caved in and bought his son a Nintendo 
-vrdeo-game system. And despite what some psychologists 
tell you, the game has some benefits, he says. 


20 


By Helen Dollaghan 

Seafood consumption has been going up annually since 
1982; the rate is now 15 pounds per person. Grilled fish 
with two tomato-ginger relish is just one of the dishes that 
can help you increase your enjoyment of this summer treat. 


PAGE/CONTENTS 


4 JOANNE DITMER 

5 SOCIAL CALENDAR 

10 JEANE DIXON 

11 DR. ART MOLLEN 

18 ANN LANDERS 

19 PERCY ROSS 
23 ON MY MIND 


On The Cover: Money coming off the 
presses at the Denver Mint. Cover 
story design by Maureen Seance. 


Diane Carman 

Contemporary Editor, 820-1281 


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THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE ENTIRE NUMISMATIC FIEU 


Bids farewell to 
Treasury post 

Ortega leaves her mark 

By Beth Deisher 

COIN WORLD Editor 

Billions of Federal Reserve notes bear her signature. 

Millions of Americans remember her from the podium of the 1984 
Republican National Convention. 

But thousands in the numismatic community readily recognize both 
her signature and her smile. 

Quiet, determined and sometimes seemingly shy, Katherine Davalos 
Ortega, 38th Treasurer of the United States, during her five years and 
nine months in office, sought a high profile for the agencies for which 
she had oversight responsibilities: the United States Mint, the Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing, and the U.S. Savings Bond program. 

As she prepared to leave office June 30 Ortega, in an interview with 
Coin World, reflected on her participation in the decision making at 
Treasury and had some advice for her successor. 

Team effort important 

“I would encourage my successor to remain very involved with the 
different bureaus and participate with the directors. It has to be a 
team effort; working together, not adversarial,” Ortega said. 

Making sure that the “team" at Treasury was working to^tter be- 
came one of her first assignments upon taking office OcL 3,1983. ( 

Orteea’s predecessor, Angela "Bay” Buchanan, served notice early 
on thafshe intended to be a hands-on manager Buchanan, drawing on 
her clout within the Reagan administration, changed the role oftoe 
modern Treasurer from that of a largely ceremonial head of ^ Sav¬ 
ings Bond Program to oversight of the three agencies which Merely 
make money for the government Buchanan also opened the door for 
modera commemorative coinage programs and was an early and en¬ 
thusiastic supporter of the commemorative coin program honoring 
the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. 

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Peace dollars 
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MS-60 registers gain 

By Keith M. Zaner 

COIN WORLD Trends Editor 

Mint State 65 coins tracked by the Coin World’s Trends Index 
dropped 20.79 points in June, the largest one-month percentage 
loss reported since the inception of the Trends Index in Decem¬ 
ber 1983 and the first drop for the MS-65 Index in 1989. 

The rare coin market had previously shown a sharp price rise: 
eight straight months for the 16,576-value market index, four 
months for the Mint State 63 index and six consecutive months 
for the MS-65 index. However, the market came to a screeching 
halt during June. Only the MS-60 index (2,596 values) showed a 
eain, and that just of 1 percent. 

The Coin World Trends Index for 1,325 MS-65 values declined 
20.79 points to 283.38, a very steep one-month 6.83 percent fall 

^Thetess volatile MS-63 index, which compares 347 values, also 
dropped. The June index of 162.7 points was down 2.6ipomts 
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[Mint visitors 
evacuated 
as workers 
report rashes 

By LEROY WILLIAMS JR. 

Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer 


About 200 visitors to Denver’s Mint were 
evacuated yesterday after seven workers de¬ 
veloped rashes while unloading metal pallets 
from a truck. 

Denver firefighters first thought the call 
at 1:45 p.m. involved asbestos, but began 
looking for chemicals that could have caused 
the ailments. 

However, no chemicals were found, and 
federal health officials will investigate fur¬ 
ther 

Two of the seven workers, who also com¬ 
plained of itchy eyes and shortness of 
breath, were taken to Denver General Hos¬ 
pital. The other five remained on the job 
yesterday. None of the Mint’s other employ¬ 
ees was evacuated. 

The workers apparently suffered the skin 
irritation when they walked into a truck 
trailer to unload the shelf-like pallets, which 
are used to transport newly minted coins 
that end up at Federal Reserve banks. The 
empty pallets were delivered from Los An¬ 
geles. 

Doug Pickup, an industrial hygienist with 
the U.S. Public Health Service, said his of¬ 
fice would examine the employees' clothing, 
the truck trailer interior and the pallets to 
try to isolate any chemical. 

A call for an ambulance at 1:45 p.m. also 


LINDA McCONNELL /RocJty Mountain News 

A paramedic helps an unidentified worker down the Irritation. Six other employees had similar symptoms 

steps of the Denver Mint after the worker developed skin yesterday after unloading a truck. 


brought Denver firefighters, who originally 
suspected the workers’ ailments were being 
caused by isocyanate, a chemical compound 
However, fire department hazardous ma¬ 
terials specialists were not able immediate¬ 
ly to find any traces of the isocyanate in the 
loading dock area or in the truck, said assis¬ 
tant fire chief Tom Abbott. 


Isocyanate, a chemical compound, is used 
in a variety of applications, including the 
manufacture of resins and adhesives, but is 
not used in minting coins. 

Mint officials ushered out about 200 visi¬ 
tors touring the facility on West Colfax Ave¬ 
nue in downtown Denver. Bill Smith, the 


mint’s deputy superintendent, said the inci¬ 
dent posed no danger to the visitors or the 
nearly 350 employees working inside. 

Pickup, whose division provides occupa¬ 
tional health services for federal agencies, 
said a similar instance of a skin irritation 
suffered by a mint employee occurred sev¬ 
eral months ago. 











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) MjunUm fiexs Thurv, Mill, 1989, Denw. Co*o . 


Om, sweet om 
on Ether Street 

Om, Om, on the 
range. 

Imagine a groovy 
city. Meditate about it for 
a moment. You see, de¬ 
veloper Michael Coyle 
thinks Denverites are 
hankerin’ for some Om in 
their homes. He plans 
to build the Maharishi 
City of Immortals, a 
subdivision of 100 homes 
somewnere in the Den¬ 
ver area. The divine de¬ 
velopment of 100 
homes, with price tags 
ranging from $200,000 

to $400,000, would be inspired by the teaching 
of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the 
transcendental meditation technique and men¬ 
tor of Beatles and Beach Boys. 

Similar pricey communes are in the works 
in Austin, Texas, San Francisco, L.A. and other 
U.S. cities — all overseen by the California- 
based Maharishi Heaven on Earth Develop¬ 
ment Corp. The communities will be free 
from stress, crime, pollution, cars and other 
trappings of civilization. Amenities include 
the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlighten¬ 
ment, a private day school with grades K-12, 
a holistic health center, a civic center and or¬ 
ganic gardens and oversized lots. Sounds like 
Highlands Ranch for hippies. 

Coyle admits there may be some resis¬ 
tance to the name, Maharishi City of Immor¬ 
tals. What are they going to call the roads? I 
can hear it now — "Meet me on the corner of 
F.,st Bbagwan Boulevard and TurhaaJ^. 



Bill 

Husted 


Jet crash may spur rule; 


Child safety seats 
restudied by FAA 


Currently, no federal regulations re¬ 
quire special children’s seats on airlin- 
* '* "** -arents to 


ers, though the FAA urges parer 
use seats that are identical to those 


By DON KIRKMAN 

Scripps Howard News Service 


WASHINGTON — The crash of Unit¬ 
ed Airlines Flight 232 may lead to Fed¬ 
eral Aviation Administration regula¬ 
tions requiring special safety seats for 
infants and children on all airliners. 

An order to “take a new look” at 
rules that would require children’s seat 
restraints on commercial aircraft has 
been issued by newly installed FAA 
adminstrator James Bucey. 


Though UAL refuses to say how 
many children were on Flight 232 when 
it crashed last week at Sioux City, 
Iowa, emergency rescue crews said a 
surprising number of youngsters were 
on the plane. Some of the children were 
traveling without parents. 


used in motor vehicles. 

The accepted procedure for protect¬ 
ing an infant during a crash is to wrap 
the child in a blanket, put the child on 
the floor, pad the child’s body with 
pillows, then bend over and press the 
child to the floor, said an official at the 
Association for Flight Attendants 

An FAA spokesman said that proce¬ 
dure was used in the UAL 232 crash, 
but the infant slid away from its moth¬ 
er and was killed. 

Another passenger on the flight was 
told to keep her child on her lap and 
wrap her seat belt around both herself 
and the child. 

“It looks like conflicting instructions 
were issued,” an FAA source said. 


✓ Records of DC-10 en¬ 
gine examined/17 

✓ ‘Survivor’ of Flight 232 
never boarded plane/17 


special seats. 

The disagreement intensified after 
the UAL 232 crash when NTSB board 
member Jim Burnett said he would 
urge the board to take a close look at 
child safety during airline accidents. 

In contrast, the FAA has refused to 
approve a child-safety-seat regulation 
because it would require the airlines to 
spend a large amount of money to pre¬ 
vent very rare occurrences — the loss 
of children s lives in crashes. 


Four infants are known to have been 
on the plane, and one was killed. 


Bucey’s order may end a disagree¬ 
ment between the FAA and the Nation¬ 
al Tr ans portation Safety Board. Since 
1983, the NTSB has urged the FAA to 
approve regulations that require in¬ 
fants and children to be strapped into 


Certain to be issues during the FAA’s 
deliberations are who will provide the 
children’s safety seats, the airlines or 
parents, and whether parents will havi 
to pay an extra fare if their child occu 
pies a seat. Currently, passengers d( 
not have to pay for youngsters who sit 
on a parent’s lap. 
























COIN WORLD, Wedne»day, Auguat 16,1989 


39 


Report critical of Mint's accounting system 


The United States Mint’s cost accounting 
system came under fire In a report by the 
General Accounting Office that was present¬ 
ed Aug. 1 during a hearing on the Mint ap¬ 
propriations for Fiscal Year 1990, which be¬ 
gins Oct. 1. 

The hearing was before the House Bank¬ 
ing Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and 
Coinage headed by Subcommittee Chair¬ 
man Rep. Richard Lehman, D-Calif. 

The report was the result of a request 
om former subcommittee chairman Rep. 
rank Annunzio, D-Ill., during the 100th 
Congress. The complete report was present- 
id to the Coinage Subcommittee by Jeffrey 
C. Steinhoff, director of Financial Manage¬ 
ment Systems Issues Accounting and Finan¬ 
cial Management Division, General Ac- 
countii * Office. 

The report explains the GAO’s review of 
the following areas: 

• Whether Ue Mint complied with the le¬ 
gal requirement Involving the shipment of 
1986 Statue of Liberty coins; 

• Examinatior of internal controls for 
coins and coin c*ies; 

• Evaluate aspects of the Mint’s financial 
management ;<ystem related to accounting 
for costs, controlling funds and providing fi¬ 
nancial information to managers; 

• Assessment of the budgetary fund struc¬ 
ture for numismatic programs. 

The GAO’S review, which states that the 
majority of problems cited in the report in¬ 
volve the San Francisco Mint, determined 
critical elements of the Mint’s financial sys¬ 
tem need modernization; reports on reve¬ 
nue and expense need improvement; inter¬ 
op controls over dies and coins need 
t re . ngthening; insignificant numbers of Stat- 
of Liberty coins were shipped without 
yment; and a numismatic revolving fund 
aould be established. 

Gustavo Friederichsen, press secretary 
for the Office of the Treasurer of the United 
States, said U.S. Mint Director Donna Pope 
was provided the GAO report July 31 — less 
than 24 hours to review the GAO report and 
provide a response at the House subcommit¬ 
tee hearing. 

Friederichsen said Pope will further re¬ 
view the GAO findings and develop an addi¬ 
tional response that will be provided at an¬ 
other Coinage Subcommittee hearing at a 
date yet to be scheduled. 

Pope told the subcommittee that the Mint 
has been assessing its manually-prepared 
manufacturing cost accounting system and 
implementation of updating with the assist¬ 
ance of two separate accounting and finan¬ 
cial management services firms. Grant 


MINT from Page 24 

The San Francisco Mint recently imple¬ 
mented its own automated die inventory 
system, which is updated daily, the GAO 
said. 

An account settlement to check shortages 
n bullion coins or coin planchets at San 
-ranclsco did not show shortages, but large 
overages for each coin denomination: the 
physical count or weight for commemora¬ 
tive and bullion coins and coin planchets on 
hand was greater than the corresponding 
amounts shown in Mint records. 

The GAO’s examination of two coin pro¬ 
grams involving seigniorage — calculated 
as the difference between the face value of 
the coin and the cost of metal, including fa¬ 
brication and transportation — showed the 
calculation correct for the Statue of Liberty 
Coin Program. 

The calculation for the gold bullion Uncir¬ 
culated coin programs was incorrect, be¬ 
cause it included labor and overhead cost, 
and as a result, material costs were over¬ 
stated by $525,000. 

The GAO says the Mint properly accounts 
for seigniorage as an adjustment of revenue 
in its bullion accounting system and its reve- 


Government Accounting 
Office recommends 

changes at the U.S. Mint 

✓ Establish a public enterprise revolving fund to finance the 

operation of the Mint's numismatic programs. 

✓ Improve internal controls over dies by requiring quarterly 

physical inventories and independent reviews of the 
resolution of discrepancies in die inventories. 

*/ Modernize the Mint's financial management system by 
developing an automated cost accounting system 
enhancing the funds control system and developing 
improved management information reports. 

^ Direct the San Francisco Mint to notify its security office of 
bullion coin shortages shown on weight and piece 
count reports. 

i/ Direct a current and comprehensive assessment of its 
vulnerability to theft and loss of dies be undertaken 
and that annual reports discuss progress on 
initiatives to improve its die inventory control 
and practices. 


Lehman, for himself and for subcommit¬ 
tee member Rep. John Hiler, R-Ind., intro¬ 
duced the Mint appropriation legislation, 
H.R. 2931, on July 19 which calls for the 
authorization of appropriations for the Mint 
for Fiscal Year 1990 and FY 1991. The bill 
was referred to the House Committee on 
Banking, Financing and Urban Affairs. 

Pope addresses subcommittee 

In her remarks before the coinage sub¬ 
committee Aug. 1, Pope addressed a sepa¬ 
rate legislative proposal for a public en¬ 
terprise fund to finance numismatic and 
Thornton and Booz, Allen and Hamilton. 


nue and expense reports should also present 
seigniorage in the same way, but are not. 

Due to an accounting error at Mint head¬ 
quarters, material costs for the Statue of 
Liberty program excluded costs of damaged 
and rejected copper-nickel planchets for the 
Proof and Uncirculated half dollars, thus 
understating material costs by $200,000 and 
profits by the same amount. 

No payment for coins 

The Mint did not comply with the legal 
requirement that the 1986 Statue of Liberty 
coins be shipped to customers only after 
payments or guarantees of payments had 
been. 

The GAO found the shipments occurred 
because the Mint discontinued in 1980 its 
policy of holding numismatic coin ship¬ 
ments paid by checks for 10 days until they 
cleared banks. That original policy has been 
reinstated and strengthened to provide for 
holding coin shipments for 15 days to allow 
checks to clear. 

Less than 1 percent of the 15.5 million 
Statue of Liberty coins shipped were done 
prior to receipt of payment, according to 
the GAO report. 


bullion coin operations for the Mint begin¬ 
ning with FY 1990. 

Pope said the proposal calls for the Mint 
to retain profits from FY 1989 reimbursable 
programs to support start-up operations for 
FY 1990 programs with sales proceeds from 
FY 1990 deposited in the revolving fund. At 
year's end. net profits from all numismatic 
and bullion programs would be placed into 
the Treasury’s general fund, except those 
funds necessary for the next fiscal year’s 
start-up costs. 

“Full Implementation of the public en¬ 
terprise concept would enable the Mint to 
be more responsive to changes in the pub¬ 
lic’s demand for numismatic and bullion 
coins and would permit the Mint to operate 
reimbursable programs in a more business¬ 
like fashion and help the Mint to compete 
with other major markets of the world," 
Pope said. 

She also referred to the proposed Mint ap¬ 
propriations bill, which calls for allocating 
$50,735,000 for Mint salaries and expenses 


Two major numismatic auction firms, 
Bowers and Merena Inc., of Wolfboro, N.H., 
and Bank Leu Ltd. of Zurich, Switzerland, 
will jointly offer the Kissel and Victoria col¬ 
lections in a Sept. 11-13 auction in New York 
City. 

According to a Bowers and Merena press 
release, the collection of Peter F. Kissel 
consists of numerous scarce and rare U.S. 
coins, with emphasis on silver. Highlights in¬ 
clude early Massachusetts silver, an Albany 
Church penny, early cents and a large selec¬ 
tion of silver dollars. 

The Victoria collection of Canadian coins 
comprises a large portion of the auction. 
Many of the rarest issues of Canada and 
Newfoundland are included, highlighted by 


and 888 average positions. 

The budget request will allow the Mint to 
produce 19.5 billion coins, satisfying pro¬ 
jected demand requirements of 18.1 billion 
coins and allowing coin Inventories to In¬ 
crease. 

The Mint’s contribution to the Treasury 
general fund for FY 1990 is estimated to be 
$572 million which will come from seig¬ 
niorage, an off-budget receipt, Pope said, 
while profits on numismatic and bullion pro¬ 
grams, an on-budget receipt, is estimated at 
$90 million. 

1990 budget 

The FY 1990 budget request for the Mint 
has a net Increase of approximately $3.7 
million over FY 1989. Increases in the FY 
1990 total $5.7 million and consist of $1.5 
million to Increase circulating coin produc¬ 
tion; $400,000 for asbestos removal; $2.1 mil¬ 
lion to Increase equipment purchases and 
building improvements; and $1.7 million for 
mandatory cost-of-living increases, Pope 
said. 

The increase is offset by $2 million for 
non-recurring costs, productivity and other 
savings, Pope said. 

The FY 1990 budget requests $1.3 million 
In appropriated funds for the asbestos 
abatement program at the various Mint fa¬ 
cilities, with the total program, projected 
for completion at the end of FY 1993, cost¬ 
ing a total $7.1 million, Pope said. 

There are no new research and develop¬ 
ment projects planned In FY 1990, but work 
is continuing on previously developed proj¬ 
ects, Pope said. The coin feed press system 
has progressed with the Installation of 10 
units and a contract for 50 units completed, 
with an additional 50 units planned for pur¬ 
chase next year, she said. 

The Mint will realize savings of the equiv¬ 
alent of 19 full-time employees and 
$700,000, Pope said. 

A contract was completed in April for an 
additional robotics system for count, bag 
and stack operations. Pope said. 

The Mint has requested $3.4 million for 
equipment replacement of coin presses, a 
blanking press, counting machines and in¬ 
dustrial trucks, Pope said. 

Personnel requests for FY 1990 total the 
equivalent of 2,145 full-time employees 888 
for appropriated activities and 1,257 for 
reimbursable activities, a reduction of 13 
full-time equivalent appropriated employ¬ 
ees and 43 reimbursable full-time equiva¬ 
lent employees, Pope said. 

Reimbursable activities for FY 1990 In¬ 
clude the annual Proof sets, Uncirculated 
Mint sets, congresslonally-authorized 
medals and the American Eagle gold and 
silver bullion coins. 

The requests include proposed reductions 
in the Mint police force following a study 
which may Identify ways of making the 
force more efficient or may indicate that it 
should be replaced by contract with private 
security guards, Pope said. 


what is believed to be the finest known ex¬ 
ample of "The King of Canadian Coins,” the 
1921 half dollar. Early Specimen sets are 
offered, including in some instances multi¬ 
ples of sets of which only a few are known 
to exist. The Victoria collection also fea¬ 
tures a large selection of high-grade early 
rarities. 

Participation in the Kissei and Victoria 
collections auction can be by mail bid or by 
in-person attendance. 

The auction catalog is available for $15 
U.S dollars in the United States and Canada 
and for $25 airmail to overseas locations. 

For a catalog or information, write to Auc¬ 
tions by Bowers and Merena Inc., Box 1224, 
Wolfeboro, N.H. 03894. 


Two firms offer U.S. silver, 
Canadian coins at auction 








40 


COIN WORLD, Wednesday, August 16,1089 



U.S. Trends 


Collector's role still vital 


By Keith M. Zaner 

COIN WORLD Trends Editor 

Because of the extreme volatility and demand for 
high-priced and high quality “slabbed’' coins, it is very 
easy to forget the foundation upon which the hobby of 
rare coins is built. The collector is the final consumer of 
rare coins, and it is the collector who receives the 
ultimate enjoyment, challenge and satisfaction from 
participating in the interesting, historical and educa¬ 
tional aspects of numismatics While headlines reflect 
the world record prices being set today for coins of all 
denominations and series, the collector’s activities are 
as strong as ever. According to Q. David Bowers of 
Bowers and Merena Galleries Inc.. “The coin market has 
been absolutely terrific for collector coins" So it is easy 
to overlook the strength and activity being exhibited by 
the collector of 1989 

In fact, I became a collector approximately 25 years 
ago I found it astonishing that you could go to a bank or 
any other business establishment and receive either in 
change or in exchange a U.S. coin which because of its 
date or Mint mark had a value more than its face value. 
Of course, this was only part of the fun. The challenge to 
complete a series of coins by date, Mint mark and variety 
was extremely rewarding as well as educational and 


Half cents 


1793 Flow** 


1796W*hPol*_ 

1786 No Pol* 




VC* MJ VM» 
1750 3300 4850 

400 600 1250. 

350. 450. 900 

7750. 10500. 19000 
9000. 15500 21000 32500 


1797 Laflarad F dg# 


310 

485 

22X 

750 

5000 

15X 

39X 


1797 Gripped Edg*_ 


.. 13X. 

__ 

18X Dr. Buat ..... 

64 

.XX 

VG4 

42 X 

Ml 
60 00 

VMO 

120 

EMO 

325 

A 080 

6X. 

MS-40 

1100 

1802/0 .... . 

3X 

725 

1350 

28X. 




1802X) rev 1800_ 

1803 

10000 

27.X 

15500 
40.X 
32 X 

21500 
65 X 
45X 

190 

425. 

800 

— 

1804 Aa Van. . 

25 25 

IX. 

310. 

425 

700 

1804 Stofcad . 

...23.X 

30.X 

42 X 

185 

355 

475 

11U. 

1905 All Vais_ 

1805 Sm 5 Si_ 

— 2525 
325 

33.X 

775 

SOX 

1X0 

150 

320 

440 

725. 

1806 All Vars 

2525 

32 X 
3X 

45X 

5X 

IX 

305 

425 

700. 

1806 Sm 6. St_ 

_ IX 

800 

16X 



1X7_ 

... 2525 

34 X 

55 X 

110. 

345. 

550 

1125 

1808_ 

2525 

34.X 

55X 

125 

375 



1808/7.. 

95.X 

ISO 

3X 

700 

12X 

S5X 

_ 

1809 Classic_ 

18096_ 

... 22.X 
-23.X 

XX 

XX 

32.X 

34.X 

55X 

XX 

XX 

125 

175 

325 

300 

5X 

,8,0 .. _ 

2500 

38 X 

54 X 

225 

600 

10X. 

1850. 

1811 

125 

2X 

490. 

10X. 

2000 



,826 

23 X 

31 X 

35.X 

XX 

IX 

350 

675 

1826.. .. 

21.X 

XX 

32 X 

41.X 

XX 

IX. 

475 

1828 13 Stars . n _ 

_21.X 

2S.X 

XX 

37.X 

6SX 

175 

2X. 

1828 12 Stars __ 

28 X 

42 X 

65 X 

105 

IX. 

3X 

1050. 

1829 

__ 2, X 

25X 

XX 

XX 

XX 

140. 

265 

1831 Origin*! and R**tr5a* 

1832 . 21.X 

25X 

XX 

XX 

XX 

140. 

240 

1833_ 

-21.X 

25X 

XX 

XX 

XX 

IX. 

235 

,*J4 _ 

... 21.X 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

IX. 

235 

1835 .. . 

21.X 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

125. 

2X. 

1836 Ong and Rastrikaa Proof 
64 

YG4 

F-12 VMD EMO AIWO 

US40 

MS-Q 


164049 Ooginals and R*strfcw Proof* Only Br Hair 

1849 La Oat* . “* 

1850 _ 

1851 - 

1853_ 

1654 . 


185. 435 

180. 360 

135. 255 


1855... 


1856. 


33 00 37 00 47 50 62 50 90 00 
35 00 3900 49 00 65 00 9500 
.30.50 35 00 42 50 52 50 70 00 

. 30 50 35 00 42 50 52.50 70 00 135. 245 

_ 30 75 35 50 44 00 56 X 7250 140. 250. 

_ 30 75 3550 44 00 55 00 70 00 120. 240. 

...33.00 37 00 45.50 57 50 82 50 165. 325 

37 SO 4500 56.50 62.50 88.00 160. 300. 


800 

675 

455 

440 

445 

435 

525 

475 


Large cents 





G4 VG4 


1075 


AM 

„ 1300 1960 

_*_375 800 

_425 825 1125. 

1783 Straw ffc3 . 52500 60000 72600 

1793 UO Cap-775 1600 2600 

179* H**d Of ’83--300 500 850 

1 Af Van . 70 00 145 2*0 

, 784 Starr*-*500 6250 11500 


1793MIERI ~ 
1793 Wreath 
1793 Lat EdO* 
wNC3 


F-12 

VF» 

EMO 

AU-50 

4750. 

8250 

1X00 

3,OX 

5150 

87X 

16750 


1650 

2650 

5250. 

10000 

17X. 

3000 

6900 

135X 



■■■ 

■ — 1 

3750 

74X 

— 

— 

,900 

5250 

10500 

— 

400 

725 

2300 

6100 

195X 

39000 

— 

— 


profitable. 

One time while screening a roll of quarter dollars — 
hoping to either locate a scarce-date Washington such 
as the 1932-D or-S, Standing Liberty, preferably with the 
date still visible, or if I was extremely lucky, a Seated 
Liberty or Barber quarter — I extracted an unusual 
“quarter." It was one which at the age of 121 had never 
seen, but one which I definitely kept. Today, my collec¬ 
tion still includes this bronze A.D. 54-68. Nero ancient 
Roman coin. 

The powerful collector market of today is demanding 
various numismatic items, including any scarce type 
coin from the 18th century to about 1920. Other needs 
Include scarce-date Seated Liberty coinage, Barber 
coinage and Bust coinage. All half cents and large cents 
are in demand from Good condition and better. Although 
scarce-date gold coins are popular among collectors, 
common-date pieces are not. This is possibly because 
of the lower gold bullion prices and the availability of the 
gold American Eagles. 

Proof 65 or MS-65 or better coins are not popular 
with collectors. They believe the much higher prices are 
out of line. They are satisfied with MS-63 quality at a 
fraction of the cost of an MS-65. 

Large cents 

G4 V&4 Ml VF-20 EMC AIWO 


1795 PI. Edg*_ 

AG4 

... 56.X 

1795 La*. Edg*_ 

95 00 

1795 Jet Hoad. 

Plain Edga. 

1796 Ub . Cap- 

17*6 Of Boil. 

— 2750 
85.X 

rev 94.. 

™550b 

1796 rev 96__ 

1796 r*v 97 „ 

...XX 

..67.X 

1796 LIHERTY . 

...77.X 

1797 rev 97. a_ 

-30.00 

17Q7 F doe 96 

32 X 

1797 PI Edo* 96_42 50 

1797 r*v97. 

Stnmleca.. 

45 X 

1796 1st Hair 

1798 2n6 HS . - - . 

.... 19.X 

1798 r*v 96. 

1798/7 1st HS.. 

XX 

...XX 

1700 

.....525 

1799/8. 

6X 

18X Normal Dal*_14.50 

1800/1798 1st HS_15X 

18X0079 2nd HS_14 50 

1801. .... 13.X 

1X1 3 Errors_32 50 

1X1 1/OX .14 76 

1X1 V1X over 1*W0 
ipp? , . 

....20.X 
... 12.X 

1802 S\9irtmt - 

1802 1/OX... 

.... 13.X 
...14.X 

. 

12 X 

1803 LD. Smal Fraction ...550 
18X LD. Large Fraction 16.X 

1 am Qinmi^a 14 74 

18X V1X ov*r inbo 
1804 . 

.... 14 X 

IX. 

HHW 

12 X 

18X . 

.... 16 X 

1X7 Larg* Fraction.... 
1X7 Smal Frachon.... 
,807/6 Large 7 

.... 12.X 
.... 13.X 
12.X 

1X7/6 Smal 7 

.650 

1806 Classic .. . 

,809 .. . 

.... 14.X 
..-28.X 

, 810_— 

_12 75 

1810 mine_ 

_12.75 


.25X 

1811/0 . ... . 

. MX 

1812 All Van __ 

—1275 

1813 

1575 

1814 AD Van_ 

.... 13 X 

% 

1816 Corona*- 

1817 13 Sian .-. 

G4 

-10.X 
— 925 
12-25 ; 

1810-._- 

ioiq all \lai% 

— 925 
a 75 

iAiaa_11.65 

1820 All Van__ 

— 925 


-11.75 


..17.X - 

,822 

.9.25 

1823- 

..45.X i 
37.X 


...075 

1824/2 

1650 


.8.75 

,826 

8.75 

18>8/S 

_ 27.X 

,827 .. -. • - 

-8.75 


. 8.75 

1828 SO • - . 

.. 10.40 

1829 Lfl Lotted 

-.6 75 

1829 Md. Letted- 

1830 Lg Letted _ 

10 X 

-6 75 

1830 Md. Letted- 

.16 75 ; 


150 

135. 

115 

165 

67.50 

72.00 

72.60 


300. 

210 . 

205. 

375 

120 . 

175 

190 


420. 

410. 

700 

175 


950 

900. 

900 

1700 

330 

375 

675 


3500. 

2825 

3000 


1160. 

1300. 

1460. 


100. 250. 385. 760. 2450 4850. 


4500 

45.X 

120. 

14a 

ex 

10X. 
38.X 
44.50 
38 X 
XX 
82 50 
43.X 
67.X 
27.X 
X 75 
XX 


XX 
32.X 
38 50 
375 
28.X 
49.X 
26.X 
32.X 

26.25 
17X. 
XX 
62 X 
28 75 
28 75 
75 X 
85X 
28.75 
47.X 

29.25 


97.X 
82.X 
215. 
240. 
19X. 
21X. 
46.X 
75X 
46.X 
42.X 
205 
80.X 
140. 
37.X 
42.X 
62 X 
XX 
25X 
115. 
49.X 
65 X 
650 
49.X 
87.X 
42.X 
70.00 
55.X 
2900 
46 X 
2X. 
45.X 
45.X 
125 
145 

45. X 
IX 

46. X 


195 6X. 

165. 3X. 

290 000 

325. 850 

37X 77X. 

47X. 85X 

185. 340. 

3X. 775 

195. 4X. 

166. 330. 

400. 11X 

215. 425 

265 5X 

88 00 245 

95.X 235 

200 395. 

87.X 2X 
50X 11000 

245 6X. 

155 365 

185. 385 

14X. 31X 

110. 3X 
270 485. 

82 X 315 
14S. 390 

115. XS 
5000 8500 

135 3X. 

405. 775. 

IX. 330 
120. 390 

275. 625 

335 700 

110. 290 

210. 475 

140. 3X 


1200 

10X. 

28X 

3000 


725. 

16X. 

860 

640 

2750 

825 

12X. 

585. 

575. 

775 

625. 


18X. 

17X. 

51X. 


630. 

790. 

715 

200X 

780. 

20X 

710. 

ex 

13X 

25X 

TOO. 

925 

740. 


VG6 Ml VPS) 
15 75 32X 75.X 
12.75 27.25 58 X 
20.X 45.X IX. 

12.75 26.75 XX 
13.X 27.X XX 
19.X XX IX 

12 75 2725 XX 

15.75 29 25 120. 

40.X XX 315 
13.25 34 25 87.X 
07.X 255 5X 

75X 210. 4X 

14 X 45 X 215 
37 JO 07 X 375 
1325 XX IX 

13 25 29 75 69 X 
55 X IX 285 
1225 14.75 61.X 
11.50 1425 XX 
15.X XX 78.X 
117$ 2725 64.X 
1725 XX 85 X 
12X 14 25 XX 
29 X 72 X IX 


EMO AU-SO 
140. 265 


15X. 

4X 


115. 235 

115 235 

240. 375 575 

125 2X 440. 
220 365 5X 

675. 14X- - 

IX. 425 600 

MX 28X. 55X. 
13X. 27X. 63X. 
4X. 120a 23X. 

6X 1850 - 

280 775 16X. 

IX 245 4X 
5X 11X 2250 
IX 240. 435 

IX 225 335 

230 365. 7ia 

IX. 245 445 

IX 4X. - 

IX 240 440 

295 600 


1050. 

1025 

1325 

1115 

20X. 

14X. 

15X. 

11000 

13X 

15X. 

1115 

1375 

1175 

4S0X 

13X. 

4100 

1325. 

16X. 

27X 

75X. 

11X. 

17X 

1375 

US43 

925 

810. 

685. 

690. 

10X. 

690 


' ABOUT TRENDS — Coin World Trends is a comprehen¬ 
sive retail value guide of US coins, published consecutively 
in a two-week cycle. Many different sources — Including 
dealer price lists (both buy and sell), prices quoted on a 
dealer trading network, advertisements, bourse transactions, 
auction prices realized, realistic private transactions and 
any additional information acquired by Coin World staff — 
are used In determining the current Trends. Also, market 
conditions, supply, demand and rarity are key considera¬ 
tions in compiling Trends. Values are for problem-free, origi¬ 
nal and uncleaned coins with attractive color. Values are 
listed for coins which are strictly graded In each grade cate¬ 
gory Cleaned, whizzed, damaged or other problem coins 
bring lex value Mint State 65 copper coins are for speci¬ 
mens which exhibit full red original color, other Mint State 
grades reflect specimens which are red and brown <S-65 
prooflike Morgan dollars are valued for deep minrr. proof- 
like examples. Prooflike and seml-proofllke MS-65 coins are 
considerably less in value. All Trends values ar. for coins 
which meet the most strict requirements to be aligned that 
grade 

Coin World neither buys nor sells coins. Trends values are 
published as a reader service and may or may not be the 
same as an Individual’s or a firm’s buy or sell prices. 

Unlex otherwise noted, condition designations with num¬ 
bers are for the lowest possible level of each grade range 
The following numbered grades correspond to fthe adjectival 
terms: AG-3, About Good; G-4, Good; VG-8. Verfc Good; F-12, 
Fine; VF-20, Very Fine; EF-40, Extremely Ffcine; AU-50, 
About Uncirculated; MS-00, Mint State or business*strike. 

A dash listed in Trends usually Indicates a coiih which Is 
not known to exist in that grade or which Is so rnpre that a 
current value is not available. 

Because of the number of generally accepted grading 
standards in use today and in order to more precisely com¬ 
municate, Coin World uses minimum standards for gr-ading 
terms for Uncirculated coins. The minimum standards are: 
Uncirculated. Brilliant Uncirculated or select Unclrcula ted 
must be a minimum of MS-60; choice Uncirculated or cholc ^ 
Brilliant Uncirculated must be a minimum of MS-63; very^ 
choice Uncirculated or very choice BU must be a minimum 
of MS-64; gem Uncirculated or gem Brilliant Uncirculated 
must be a minimum of MS-65; split grades such as MS-63/65 
or MS-60/63 must fail back into the lowest adjective level. 
MS-63/63 may be described as choice Brilliant Uncirculated 
or choice Uncirculated. The split grade MS-60/65 or MS- 
60/63 may be explained as Uncirculated, Brilliant Uncircu¬ 
lated or select Uncirculated. 

Abbreviation key 


1st H3 — First Hair Style 

2nd HS — Second Hair Style 

Arr. — Arrows 

Obi. — Double 

Dr. Bust — Draped Bust 

FBL — Full Bell Lines 

FH — Full Head 

Flwg — Flowing 

FSB — Full Split Bands 

Or. Edg* — Gripped Edge 

Her Eagle — Heraldic Eagle 

Kor. — Horizontal 

Inv. — Inverted 

Jel. Heed — Jefferson Head 

LD — Large Date 

Let Edge — Lettered Edge 


LM — Large Motto 
MD — Medium Date 
Obv. — Obverse 
PL — Prooftike 
Pi. Edge — Plain Edge 
Prf — Proof 
Rev. — Reverse 

50 — Small Date 

51 5. Knb — Slanting 5. Knob 
on Ear 

S of A — States of America 
Spiked — Spiked Chin 
Straw NC3 — Strawberry 
Leaves, Non-collectible 3 
Vars. — Vaneties 


Large cents 


8 X 10.75 12.X XX XX 240 435 695 



04 

v&a 

M2 

VF-20 

EMO 

All-60 

MS-60 

MS-63 

1832 All Van_ 

_8.X 

11X 

1325 

45.X 

IX. 

240. 

435. 

695. 

1833. 

8 45 

10X 

12.X 

38.X 

115 

215. 

335 

615 

1834 Al Van 

. .- 8 65 

11.X 

1425 

44.X 

92.X 

2X. 

315. 

595 | 

1834 Lg. 8. Stan. 









i*v Lattan- 

_11.75 

1525 

32.X 

51.X 

115. 

245. 

440 

695 1 

1834 Lg 8. Sian. 









Md L*n*n _ 

_85.X 

17S. 

285 

5X 

8X 

20X 



1835 Al Van- 

.8 75 

12.X 

14 76 

45.X 

100 

220 

325 

600 1 

1835 Typ* 38_ 

_0.X 

8.75 

12.X 

44 X 

90.X 

2X. 

310. 

590 1 

1836.. .. 

8.25 

11.X 

1575 

44 X 

105. 

205 

320 

595 1 

1X7 AH Van 

_8.75 

9.X 

11.85 

37.X 

87.X 

205 

315. 

595 

1838 

8 25 

940 

11.75 

44 X 

77.X 

2X 

305 

590 

1839 Haed ol-38 

_800 

11.X 

1425 

47.X 

105 

235 

425 

735 

18396_ 

_165 

290 

600 

17X 

3850 




1839 Sity Head . 

-11.10 

1425 

1925 

55.X 

IX 

335 

7X. 

1675. 

1839 Booby Head 

_9.00 

1225 

18 X 

56 X 

145 

290. 

650 

15X. 

1839 Al Van_ 

_6 85 

1225 

15.75 

39 X 

95 X 

2X. 

305 

590 

1840 An Van_ 

...8.15 

975 

11.X 

24.X 

62 X 

180 

295 

5X 

1840 SO. Lg 18 .... 

.-.9.05 

12.X 

15.X 

38.X 

87.X 

205 

360 

7X. 

1841 SO. .. 

820 

975 

1225 

3S.X 

95 X 

185. 

310 

595 

1842 All Van_ 

-8.15 

9.76 

11.X 

18.40 

62 50 

IX 

295 

580 

1843 Petit* 









Small L*n*n_ 

_0.15 

BBO 

10.X 

18 40 

61.X 

IX 

29S. 

580 

,843 Mature 









Larg* Latter*.... 

8.16 

11.X 

1425 

32.75 

XX 

IX. 

325 

615. 

1843 Petit* 









L*rg*L*aen_ 

_14.X 

19.X 

48.X 

8S.X 

2X 

510. 

775. 

1100 

1844. 

. - 8X 

925 

10.X 

1825 

60 00 

175. 

28S 

575. 

1844/81 . - 

.-15.X 

19.X 

3S.X 

77.50 

255 

sx. 

— 

_ 

1845.. ... 

8.X 

925 

10.X 

1825 

XX 

145. 

2X 

570 

1846 AH Van 

. .8.X 

0.25 

10.25 

17.90 

56 50 

145. 

280 

570. 

1848 SO.. 

-8.X 

0.25 

1025 

17.X 

XX 

145. 

270 

595 

1847 -.. . 

8.X 

8.75 

10X 

18 X 

6VX 

175. 

285 

600 

1847 7/Sn,7_ 

_12 X 

19.X 

27.X 

S2.X 

110. 

265. 

4X 


184« ........ 

._ 8.X 

8.75 

975 

17.65 

XX 

145 

280 

570. 

1849 

.- B OO 

8.75 

975 

17.65 

XX 

145. 

2X 

670 

18X 

. B OO 

8 75 

9.75 

1725 

XX 

145. 

2X 

570 

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COIN WORLD, Wednesday, August 16,1989 


MINT from Page 1 

■tart-up costs for the next fiscal year's num¬ 

ismatic programs Funds beyond start-up 
costs would be placed in the Treasury's gen¬ 
eral fund 

Establishing a public enterprise revolving 
fund for the Mint’s numismatic operations 
— currently financed through four separate 
funds — would consolidate all accounting 
and budgeting for sale revenues; the cost of 
production, marketing and administration; 
the coat of raw materials; and the cost of 
distribution, recotnage and waste for num¬ 
ismatic programs, according to the GAO re¬ 
port. 

Internal control problems 

In a July 26 letter to Lehman from Brian 
P. Crowley, acting Assistant Comptroller 
General, included in the preface to the GAO 
report Crowley responded We found that 
the Mint has accounting and internal control 
problems which require management's at¬ 
tention. 

“Internal controls are insufficient to pro¬ 
tect coins and dies against loss or theft" 
Crowley said. “The Mint's cost accounting 
and funds control systems do not produce 
reliable information. The Mint does not 
have management Information reported 
needed to support decision making. 

“Furthermore, the current financing ar¬ 
rangements for the numismatic programs 
do not give the Congress* adequate Informa¬ 
tion about the programs' businesslike opera¬ 
tions,” Crowley said. 

Additional recommendations to the Direc¬ 
tor of the Mint Include: 

• Improve Internal controls over dies by 
requiring quarterly physical Inventories and 
Independent reviews of the resolution of dis¬ 
crepancies In die Inventories. 

• Modernize the Mint's financial manage¬ 
ment system by developing an automated 
cost accounting system, enhancing the funds 
control system and developing Improved 
management information reports. 

• Direct the San Francisco Mint to notify 


its security office of bullion coin shortages 

shown on weight and piece count reports 

• Direct a current and comprehensive as¬ 
sessment of its vulnerability to theft and loos 
of dies be undertaken and that annual re¬ 
ports discuss progress on Initiatives to im¬ 
prove Its die inventory control and practic¬ 
es. 

Statue of Liberty program 
The purpose of the review was to deter¬ 
mine whether the Mint complied with the 
legal requirement involving the shipment of 
1986 Statue of Liberty coins; examine inter¬ 
nal controls for coins and dies, evaluate as¬ 
pects of the Mint's financial management 
system related to accounting for costs, con¬ 
trolling funds, and providing financial infor¬ 
mation to managers, and assess the budget¬ 
ary fund structure for numismatic pro¬ 
grams. 

The report says Mint officials have Indi¬ 
cated a number of steps have been taken to 
correct the accounting and control prob¬ 
lems 

• Developing on-line data entry for the die 
Inventory system. 

•Providing additional training for its cost 
accountants. 

• Having a contractor review Its financial 
management system requirements. 

Weak controls over dies 
The GAO review found that the Mint has 
weak controls over dies and coins and “em¬ 
ployees failed to follow prescribed proce¬ 
dures In some areas, such as notifying field 
Mint security offices when unreconciled dis¬ 
crepancies In die Inventories occur." 

Established coin production controls at 
the San Francisco Mint were not followed 
when Its security office was not notified of 
missing bullion coins and coin planchets. 
The Mint's reconciliation of the account in 
1986 was unreliable In Identifying coin 
shortages because the physical count was 
far greater than counts shown by corre¬ 


sponding Mint records. 

The report addressed two thefts of coin 
dies: one In April 1986 involving 44 dies for 
the Statue of Liberty sliver dollar The dies 
had been stolen from an airport m Monlre- 
ai, Canada, while beire to ihe Royal 

Canadian Mint for chromepiatlng and pol¬ 
ishing. Dies were occasionally chromeplat- 
ed by the RCM under contract when back¬ 
logs occurred at the San Francisco Mint 
A second theft occurred in January 1988. 
when 24 dies for 1-ounce American Eagle 
bullion coins were enroute from San Fran¬ 
cisco Mint to West Point Mint 
A review of security procedures after the 
second theft found one of the two couriers 
the Mint used did not provide constant sur¬ 
veillance services as required by Mint poli¬ 
cy The Mint now only uses armed couriers 
that provide shipment Inspection at each 
stop or transfer location. 

The GAO report was also critical of the 
Mint’s central Die Information System, 
which obtains information in Washington 
from data put In by field personel at the 
Mint production facilities. The system 
tracks inventories In two ways: by the serial 
number engraved on the dies and control 
numbers assigned to batches of 25 dies. 

The GAO report cites Instances where the 
San Francisco Mint, trying to reconcile die 
Inventories, found it had not received a cer¬ 
tain number of dies from the Philadelphia 
Mint because shipping reports did not indi¬ 
cate dies that had been removed from ship¬ 
ments prior to their delivery because they 
were flawed or damaged. 

As an Interim step In the manufacturing 
process, the Philadelphia Mint sends Proof 
dies to the San Francisco Mint for chrome- 
plating and polishing before they are 
shipped to the destined Mint faculty The 
Mint faculty to which the dies are to be 
shipped Is charged with accountability The 
GAO report died one case where the West 
Point Mint was charged with a shipment of 


dies a month before It could verify receipt 
The situation could be further compound¬ 
ed, the GAO report indicates, if. as in the 
prior example, the San Francisco Mint re- 

JwoteA die during Ife r hr^^K,..,-- 

and the dlc u uui updated to show that the 
die was rejected and destroyed 
Because DLS reports were considered 
inaccurate, the GAO says the San Francisco 
Mint and Denver Mint had difficulty recon¬ 
ciling die inventories. In 1987, the San Fran¬ 
cisco Mint was unsuccessful twice in trying 
to complete Its die Inventory reconciliation. 
DIS records were not useful during the 1988 
reconcillaUon because they had not been 
updated for destroyed dies for about a year 
As a result, DIS showed San Francisco 
had a Mint Inventory of 20,616 dies, wbl 
that Mint's non-DIS internal records Indies 
ed only 7,322. The 1988 reconcillaUon. tai 
Ing four months, showed a difference c 
2,902 dies, approximately 40 percent of ai 
dies for which San Francisco believed it wa 
accountable. 

It took staff a month at the Denver Mint tr 
complete die Inventory reconciliations »«in£ 
Information other than DIS data, according 
to the GAO. Security chiefs at both the San 
Francisco and Denver Mints were unaware 
of the results of die reconciliations, the GAO 
report said 

Some changes implemented 
The Mint has Instituted on-line data entry 
and DIS update capability at Son Franctscc 
In December 1988 and by mld-1989 at th« 
other Mints to provide more accurate anc 
updated Information. The Mint has also ini 
tlated a Com Press Monitoring System, in 
eluding a die-tracking subsystem, to recor 
production and other die data, and the Jo 
Shop System, to monitor dies throughout th 
manufacturing process. Once developec 
they will be integrated Into the DIS system. 

Please see MINT Page 39 














I 


Buffs rank 14th in season’s 
1st AP football poll Sports/ 1C 


Denver industries fail to cut 

toxic emissions Dotivor & West/ IB 


Broncos battle back, beat 
Dallas 24-21 in OT sport#/ ic 


Hie SUNDAY Denver Post 


August 27, 1989 


Voice of the Rocky fountain Empire 


FATE OF WILDERNESS STILL IN BALANCE 




Th# Drhvri Poil / Karl OahrinQ 

CONTRAST: Th# Indian 
Ptiks mod survives In natural 
llati. loft, despite nearby pop 
Illation contort. Abovo, tha 
Marki of man and mining are 
OOmmon across Colorado. 


Pristine areas spark noisy debate 

Environmentalists planning renewed push to preserve lands 


By Mark Obmaaclk 

Donvt' Post Environment Wrttsr 

CRESTONE NEEDLE On some spindly 
ridges atop this 14,197-foot peak, climbers 
can balance themselves so their toes hang 
over the headwaters of the Hio Grande River 
while their heels perch over the Arkansaa 
River basin 

A single misstep or unpredictable wind 
gust will send a mountaineer plunging hun¬ 
dreds of feet Into u timberline rock field 
Nevertheless, hundreds of hikers still manuge 
each year to conquer the most unforgiving 
heights oi the Sangrc du Cristo mountain 
range in southwest Colorado 

Environmentalists say the magnificent vis¬ 
tas of Crestonc Needle, which stood un 


■ OPPOSING VIIWSi Two Coloradans 
boo things very dlfforently./l 1A 

■ 'WAR ON WIST'i Conservatives charge 
Bush wooing environmentalists./Ml 

climbed longer than any 14,000-foot peak in 
Colorado, should be forever spared from 
man s development by becoming a federally 
protected wilderness urea But an oil compa 
ny wants to drill on 1,280 acres along one of 
the mountain’s main approach routes. 

The only people with the power to resolve 
the dispute are politicians in Washington. For 
six years, they’ve failed 

It s an impasse that stretches far beyond 
Colorado borders. As the 25th anniversary of 


the landman! national Wilderness Act op 
nrouches neit Sunday, the fute of the Rocky 
Mountain W#t i most pristine lands teeters 
as precariooNy as the climbers on Crestonc 

Needle. 

A battle over water rights threatens to 
block the prop ud wilderness designation of 
millions of ijrrs of spectacular peaks and 
canyons. Minton umber and 011 l n t ercstjl orc 
mobilizing to i * !<>[> l*rg« tracts of roadless 
areas Smog (mid far-away cities and smelt- 
ers is pollutqL fragile alpine lakes with acid 
ruin and snow 

Ai the sains time, some existing wilderness 
areas arc Ang er of being loved to death 

pieaso sec WILDS on 10 A 


♦ Final Edition / 75 conts 


State tourism 
falls short 
of projections 

Crowds lag at attractions, parks; 
only mountain resorts show gains 


By Michollw P. Fulchor 
and Mlchollw Mahoney 

D#nv#r Poll BtAfl Writer* 

What was touted to be a banner 
summer for Colorado tourism Is 
turning into bad news for the 
slate’s resort owners and promot¬ 
ers. 

The tourist season doesn't offi¬ 
cially end until Labor Day, but a 
survey of state parks and privately 
owned attractions shows sluggish 
growth or declines in tourism. 

Experts blame a lackluster na¬ 
tional economy and Colorado's 
continuing financial woe* for the 
poor health of one of the state's 
key industries 

The only Colorado areas escap¬ 
ing (he downturn are mountuln re¬ 
sorts, where uggresslve advertis¬ 
ing campaigns apparently have 
succeeded in drawing people who 
might otherwise have spent time 
along the Front Range. 

"We’re losing it to the moun¬ 
tains if you look ut what's going on 
in tourism,” said Jim Clark, execu¬ 
tive director of the Colorado 
Springs Convention und Visitors 
Bureau "They’re pulling the dol¬ 
lars out of here and putting them 
up there." 

Rob Juppe, executive director of 
the Summit County Chamber of 
Commerce, agreed '‘Certainly, 
we’ve been popular all summer 
long " 

Visits to the Summit chamber's 


visitor centers in Dillon und Frisco 
were up 62 percent in May, June 
and July compared with the same 
period last summer 

By contrast, visits to the Colora¬ 
do Springs Visitors Center were 
down ft 5 percent. The U.S Air 
Forco Academy, the biggest Colo¬ 
rado Springs tourist attraction, re¬ 
ported a scant 3 percent increase 
In tourist traffic. 

The picture is equally gloomy 
elsewhere 

"Overall, tourism at Colorado’s 
national parks, recreation and his¬ 
torical areas was flat through Ju¬ 
ly,” said Nancy McCnllln, an econ¬ 
omist for the legislative Council, 
the research arm of the stale legis¬ 
lature 

And the outlook for the rest of 
the year doesn’t show much Im¬ 
provement 

Earlier this year, a Colorado 
State University study predicted 
tourists would spend $5 91 billion 
in Colorado during 1989, a 5 per¬ 
cent Increase over 198H McCallln 
now predicts that murk won’t be 
met. 

"I think that’s a little high,” she 
said. These numbers we have now 
are going to cause slower growth 
The state will feel It and already Is 
feeling it.” 

So fur this year, the state’s larg¬ 
est tourist draw — Rocky Moun 

TOURISM on A 

























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Postal Service anticipating biggest deficit ever 



N.Y. blacks, 
whites swap 
jeers, taunts 


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streets'* Oet sheets. - s^artec at 
abota 3 3# p3. 


As aagry visse vocrjy aoc axae 
eider Iwcal readers fiM tke 
ssdewalks. a tetter racial hatred 
perrteatec the atSMSohere 

The whiles cfeasr.ed. Ceatxal 
Part Central Part' refemag cb 
tie rape aed beatag ta a wtae »- 
vestment basker i* April Tta 
black desaoessrators chatted back. 
-Bernard Beadt Howard Beach* 
Laser sfee blacks chants 
charged to “Ywef. Ywef* Ybo 
H awkms is the 16-year-oM black 
rowtfc whose death sparked tke 
protest 

The whites relied back. We 
watt Tawaea referrlag to Ta- 
waca Brawler a black teesarer 
wise toed atfbonties list she was 
raped by a group of wtae rnea A 
state mresugatjoa fouad bo eri- 
- deice to support ber claim. 

Meaowtsie. a otywide ynanbtt 
fer the gessus wte killed Haw 
kiai cocttuwed as fire acker sus¬ 
pects a tke rsKxaJ attack were ar 
ratgoaL 



35.000 march in Washington for civil rights 


Navy does right 

bv Iowa hero who 

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Economist says forest fires may have hurt state 


TOUMI9M Irom I‘ago I A 

| lain National Park tut* reported 
r a l percent decline in tow tat traf 

|M 

VimioiK to the pnik Hu outfit July 
!lt, lull') totrthxl I 5>/0 ttVMi com 
pored with I 211*1 l<13 lot (hr Mine 
MV !<mI In lUdil V'lHtts lo iMnimam 
National Monument were down U 
purcml 

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do national park* and ret i ml inn 
arena totaled 3.1IM27 by July 31, 
virtually uiu lumped from lUlill 

“Tour lam wna up 17 pel rent 
through June hut July look n Idle 


out of the total pMurtv' Mel ullln 

Mild 

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ellne 

Ualner* Ihl* nummci are lluvon 
ween Nufloitnl Monument, with 
lout tut vInKm up ,18 percent, Itenl'a 
(lid Koft, up U pel end, Black («n 
yon of the (Junnlimn, up 7 percent, 
t'olorndo National Monument, up ft 
percent Elorlnntmt Foaell lledn, up 
II percent, nnd the ('uiecaidl Na 
tlonul flee run lion Aien, up 3 jm » 
oenl 

Two bellwether IH>nvn men nl 


Unction*, (lie lift Mini null (lie 
Coer* biewery, rcpoiled erratic 
■uinmer linffh 

We iu more down Hum tip, 
»i«id Dorln Mcdownn of f’oora 
We ie awing le«*< nnd h e out of 
Nlnlern That’a aomiMhlng we’ve 
)i»mI noticed 

At Ihe Denver mint, "It Mailed 
mil good, and Him It Mailed drop 
ping, Mid Tito Itnel. chinf of e» 
hlliltH nnd Mle« nl Hu mini 

I.ilM AugUnl, the mini hotted 
til duo vlillmn 

Ho fni till* month only 40,DM 
lour IM* have walked through IIm 
I or nM lien 


I,nM yen) a lofnl of 740,000 vIM 
loin law lie fadllty Mo fm Ihln 
year, only 179 000 |ieople hnve Ink 
i n lie torii 

I don't Hindi we r* going fo 
make 740,000 line) *nld 
To Hm moiiHi, loin im liwffh la on 
Ihe downwind < orve nl Mike* I'eak 
Ifighwoy which hna repotted no 11 
m it eol dnrrruae III vlaftor* *o far 
Ida year 

Al Aeven Pall* went of Colorado 
Iprlng*, Haffh wna down a per 
M id through May, June and July, 
anld manager Illlggln* 

Uil vi nr * Haffh Ihggln* 
wna ttppaicolly holMered by lout 


1*1 a who planned l« vlnll Vellow 
atone fat M*/k a detour anolli whMI 
devaMaHng fire* ftnuk Hie nn 
llotial park 

( MfUrt l Ily a Ifoynl (tin g* elan la 
awing fewer vIMIora 

"It hna not I on Hie year Hint I 
HlOUghl It would he " *nld Moynl 
(iorg* Markcfmg f/lr»«lor Ireho 
nth Murhlelaw 

"Augoat hna heap a real hard 
hitler We re down nhoul a or 7 
fieri «ftl 

|Jkc < lark Mot hlelaeo blame* 
iru rean*d cornpetlUon from Hie 

loounlMln »kl m *orla 

They've InH hed onto a good 


tourism 


Ihlng, and whnf Ibey ve done N 
they are faking whal are tradition 
ally Kr«#nl Mange vlaltor* and lek 
lug Iheri) lo Hie mountain* ahe 

»*ld 

( olorado Apr mg • •Imply can 
rud rompeu with two night a in 
Vail for % ’M 

Th- town of Vail yeiertUy Im 
poM'd a new Inralueaa IpcoMng fee 
ranging from fffa to I*H to rale* 
money for aummar me rioting 
held a Veil apofteamau "Befee 
tan HrupJlry; call volume *nd 
hooking* have h*m up aronnd fc 1 * 
percent in »h* valley f 





Sunday, August 27.1989 


The Denver Post 


* 11A 


WILDERNESS AREA DEADLOCK 



2 views 
from the 
trailhead 

To find out what wilderness 
means to Coloradans, Denver Post 
environment writer Mark Obmas- 
cik accompanied two native West¬ 
erners on separate hikes down the 
same trail in the Williams Fork 
area, a proposed wilderness area 
north of Interstate 70 near Dillon 














PMd s'fWf iklUK TUVA U \ \ \ 1 ,v*n 


CITY UAHS 


THE PRICE OF THEIR 
FAVORS _ 

An asbestos contractor and 
a go-go dancer wreak havoc at 
the Denver Mint. 


Whal d*x*s a btisimnsman liave to do 
to land a government contract 'tit 
Denver'*' Wine ami dim* bureaucrats? 
liny them Broncos ti* led*? Help tlx'rn 
start their »»wn businesses? Buy th**m 
tK'x at one of tfii' <ily's beat-known 
sfriiHoints? 

AJ! of the above, acc ording to one 
view of the rimimstanre* surrounding 
;in a*b***lo* removal contract awards! 
last year None of the above, if you 
Ikrtcto the principals, who proteat that 
hiii b favors aren't sign* of graft and 

< orruption, tnjt innocent exchanges 
between folk-agues. 

EHlx*r wiry, tlw- now year-old 
investigafkm into the* contract lia* 
already rout two I)enver Mint 
empkiy***-* tlx-ir job* and M to a formal 
reprimand and eventuaI resignation- - 
for a third. And an employee dismissal 
I month i. 11 s o it rx*w 
question Were krw ranking Mint 
hu/i niu rHi* I rented nvtre harshly than 
l/xlr *uf>rrUrr* iWl tin mult their 
erfoie* li M serious? 

Wln’ii thi’ rodent *il 

M or wmw w wm n 
n* ;<hh **xn**risin RIK7, Mint offx ials 
hired AAR Ash*-*!** Abatement of 
(/rand Juration to begin removing it on 
an i*n*-rg<*ncy, interim basis until they 
could issue a < out rail for the entire job 

Bids were solicited in early RJ88. 

AAB promised to do tlx* work for 
Ki.7 million: another firm, I,VI 
Environmental S*-rvx vs ijf Oklahoma 

< ily. bid million But for this job, 
price wasn't a* iinixirtant as tbe bkls' 
technical nx-rits These* were to be* 
i-valuaied by a five ira*nib*T committee 
chaired by Darryl Mayton. tlx* 
Washington, D.C .based safety manager 
for all five 1 J.S, Mints. 

During the evaluation period, AAB 
continued its inienm asb*-sto* 
removal -and its association with Mint 
officials A* * ording to hearing 
rramKTfptJi, AAB co-owner Robert 
Kemp liad v-veral lunclx-s witii Mayton, 
Denver Mint safety manager Marcy 
Nkks and safety sp*** ialist l-arry 
C anx-nter, all rrx*rnfxT* of tlx* bid 
evaluation committee 

The four also attend**d a March lb 
afn-r work g**t t*^**llxT of about ten 
people at Gashos. Afl*T a f<*w drinks, 
eight of the group di-ckled to liav** 
dinner Halfway through the rra*al, 

Kemp was calk'd away on an 
emergency. On his way out. fx* paid the 
entire lab—about $170—which tbe 
dim*r» didn't discover until afi*T 
he'd gone 

Kemp perfonm*d other favor* for 
Mint employees. In May he lx*lix*d 
Nk ks move some of her household 
furnishings into a rx*w home. He also 
mack* a business referral to help 
( arjx*nU*r spirt liis own firm. 


If tlx-s** graxl deeds w**re supfxssed 
to help AAB win fix* ash<**los renxival 
contrail, they didn't work Mayton's 
committee recommeruh-d EVI 
AAB sued in August 1088, < barging 
that ih*' committee had *jv**rlook*il 
I,Vi's failure to disclose thirteen f**rk*raJ 
b* alib and safHy citations at one of tin 
subsjdtark-s, AAB also accused Mayton 
and Andrew CtMgWf Jr., associate 
director for operatkms at the Mint of 
liaving pr<**sur**d Nicks and Cart)**riter 
to change lixir bkl **valuations. Nkks 
amJ Carpenter hart initially rafi-d tlx* 
company's bids higher than hail other 
< oinuiittee rix'infx*rs, AAl^ saxl Nicks 
n*fus4*d to cluing** Ii*t AAvli rvakisttUm, 
lail six- boosi*-*l I,Vi's rating ( a ruttiUr ^ 

also rfiang*^! his nuirks. tilling tn<* If 
balan* ** in favor of LVI. 

AArfVs alk'gations w**r*' back***! up m 
by Nk ks aixl Carpent**r, wlx> t**s<ifx*d'. 
under sufwxx'na thai Mayton and 
C </sg;ir<*ii Usui pr*-sHur<*d tb**in I*; 
t hsuigi- 1heir appraisal* 

Miiyttm mill C o*w>ir*-M rp-fiM**! //i 
>»*«// imjirtijuity (Sivn >Im !■». t. ■»* 
«-jq«srnr»-fnrgs ■RfonRI'f luxl 
in f*valuatlng bids, th «7 s,*ud. ii wai 
ap|^*;j^ia!< t*i ask th**m to re-do th**i 
*s'or**s, whk h w*t<* out *if line with 
those of oth ir i*aix*l nx'irds-r* And tlx 
saf**ty citations were irrek*vani because- 
they didn’t inv*>lv<- aslx*st/m work. Ih**y 
IxrinU*d out Mint lawy*rs als*> argn<*a 
for the dismissal of AAR'* suit, citing 
tlx- apix-araiki* of impropriety created 
wh**n Ki*mp at#* with and did tMTsonal 
fav*>o» for Mint <*mpkiy«s*s. Hx* judg*- 
refu***d to ilismiss 

In rlre^rial d*iiosilion* Nicks claiirxtl 
six* aJu*mal**d with Kemp in jiaying for 
th**ir lunch*** Mayt*m said he did the 
sanx- wtx*n he and K/*inp harl drink> 

On balance, no numiy exchanged f 
lurnds, Ibiv sakl, **xc-4*jit f*jr die 
Oaslio's tan. 

In NwihiIxt, federal Judg* Slx-muju 
Kmesilver ruled that die rneals and 
Ki*mp's favor* for ( arj**fit*»r and Nk ks 
w<*ri* not ilk-gal gratuitii-s and liad ms 
bf*t*n offered *1n barl faith ” He t<*nm*rl 
dx* health and safety citations relevant, 
lxjwf*v**r, ami ordered tlx* Mint to 
r**st;irt du* bklding proc**ss 
In the rni-antinx*. thi* UA Treasury 
D**tiartnx»nt’s inapector g**i»i*ral 
invi-stigaled du* situation. As a n**ult, 
Mayton was reprimanded for ,u < i-ptmg 
the Oasho's dinner from Kemp, and 
( artx-nliT and Nk ks were fired. 

Carpenli*r r*’lin*juish< d his ajipeal rights 
in return for being allowed to resign, 

Nk*ks atjjx*al<*d. 

At her dismissal hearing last month. 
Nick* s;ud six* triisl to \my Kemp for 
tlx* C/aaho's dinn**r the m*xl day, bui lx* 
refused (Ur finally accepted payrrx rit 
months lat*T.) His h**lp in moving a fi*w 
hous**hold gixKls to her n**w home was 
inconsequential, six* siiirl, and had no 
bearing on b**r evaluation of the 
a*fx*Hto* bids. 

And Kemp leslifiitJ that Mayltai bad 

fir* 


ask**d Urf sev<*ral favor*—' sons* far from 
iixofftt-qiXTifial <nx* i-vi-tung al 
Sfiotgun WilJi*^ tlx- bunipand griml 
six/wc lub on South f oiordtio Ikiukvard, 
Maykai a*k**d an AAR lurtn&n to find 
out what it would cost to liave snt 
widi orx* */f tlx* rlaix **rs, K/*inp sai/l 
A/hnini Jrativ** jixlg* ‘'4**v** Chaffin 
pr**v**nt**d Nk ks' Iawy**r fr*xn pursuing 
Ibis liix of qu**stioning, ruling dial 
it wasn't rek-vanl to h**r apjxal Rui 
a<* ording to Nk ks, Kemp told lx-r lx 
Ix lx*ved Maytmi was asking hirn to birr* 
a prr/stiluti* A Shotgun Willi* '* 
euiployee infonrx**! tlx* AAR man Ilia! 
hiring a dam er (or sry, would c/okt 
six* says (UtUrwilional 
EntrTtaimm-TTt Consultants, whk h 
manag<*d Slx/tgun WilJx 's at dx* tins*, 



didn't r*-sfxxid to a r*i|uest for comment 
last week. Thr* strip-jrant is now undcT 
rx*w management.) 

Mayton didn't rr*spond to phom* calls 
last week. ekhr*r, but he U stifii-d at 
Nk ks' h**aring that it was Kemp and the 
AAR kin-rnan who suggr*sted hiring the 
grego dam **r. ‘"Hirv asked me if I would 
like tliat," he said, adding dial he was 
prepared to j«iv for bis “shan* 

Kimip also declines comment, but 
Nicks says he told H*t he wanted no 
liart of hiring a prostitute at any price. 
“Hr* d*x*sn't do lnjsini*ss that way," 

Nicks says. 

It wasn't the only favor Mayton 
wanted, Kemp testified. Ihe Mint sa/Hy 
manag**r had asked Knnp to help him 
start ms own asbestos-removal 
busin**ss, and to assist him in taking 
asbestos from an okl homr* he’d just 
purchased back I^ast. H** luxl also 
wanted Kemp to buy him tickets to dx* 
BroncosCbicago Ik-ars frxitball gam** 
th<* iir**vious Nov«*mlx*r. 

Kemp denied doing anything but 
buying the tickets Mayton wasn't in 
Denver tlx* day of tlx* game and didn't 


ux* tlwmi anyway, Kemp said 
Nx ks' Iawy*T, bavui Wollins %ay • 
dial **ven witix/ut consxk'rijig tlx 
**vidr*ncr* *>f arkf lUonA Uvor* v/lk ili-d by 
Mayton, Nicks was trr.*ated unfairly Six* 
r<*tmbunx*d Kr*rr»p for tlx* f/aslxi s m**al. 
MayUfti never did. Arid liaving Krtnp 
assist with Ixt move hardly pi-Jifx's 
dismissal wh**n Mayt*m g*/t *mly 
a r<*tmrnand 

Nkks says Mint lawyi*r K/*n f/ubin 
tokl 1 x*t hr* will ask dx* dr*par1irx*nt’t 
in*pr*ctor g*-fXTaJ to r<*<ip<*ri tlx* **ntin* 
casr* br*rauh** */f m*w afl**gafxms fr**m 
Kr*mp. fix* AAR **Hnvrx*r n*/w * lainci 
Mayton and ( *7Sfjar**a sugg**st**rl that if 
h** lowered his bid. he’d win dx 
contract Gubin told her thaJ might 
constitute illegal bid tamjxTmg. Nk ks 
says Six* lx*lk*v**s it was Kemj/s r«*fusal 
to adjust his bid that prompted Mayton 
and Cosgarr-a to slti/t tlxir 
to I.VI and to pr*-ssur** Nicks and 
Caijx-niiT to diang** tlx ir rvaluabons. 

Gubin decline* to discuss wlx-dvr he 
1 will seek am^hr-r invinligation, but 
^ j r*mphasi/**s tliat tlx* new inferrnatkxi 
/ against Maytmi is urisub^mtiated "We 
look into all such aJk*gations," h<* 
says, 

^ Nu ks d*x*sn‘t believe anrjth**r 
^ invr*stigation would do Ixt any 
^ grxxl. fix* first orx* was flawr*rl, 
shr* says, because inyr-stigators 
w**r<*n't interested in what shr* 
km*w abrxit thr- additional 
favors sought by Maytmi Ami 
tlx* fudge hr*aring hrT cam* is 
(•qually uninUTe*U*d in evidence 
\f against sr*nior Mint official*, 
she chaarges “'Hut' re ptirp*xv**ly 
**va<ring anylhing that points to 
high**r ups/ six* says. ‘'My firing was 
a politicki. rH-iltXmv mkw, i<« 

O*** aus** ol 07 U-nUfnony tUul L**»Knr<'H. 
the hand man for /Mi/if director 
/ Donna I Pope, tried to crierve me. You 
stick your bead up over thire and do 
what's right, and you gr*t your neck 
chopped off." 

Neidx-r Pope nor Cosgarr*a could be 
reached for conim<*nt last w**<*k. 

Judge Chaffin admits hr* bl*x*kr*d 
attempt* to probe alegatsons of 
misconduct by Nkks' sujx*riors “It’s 
not my function to invi-stigat** those 
chargr*s. My function is solely to sit as 
an arlniinistrativ** judge on her appi-aJ." 

Mayton won't be around to have his 
conduct examinr*d, anyway. Mint 
| sources say h<* rr*sigm*d last wer*k. 
g Another inv**stigalion would mean 
J more hearings for Kemp, who still 
dex-sn't have anything lo show for his 
effort* to win the Mint contract Upon 
rebid, it was awarded to yet another 
firm, Hazardous Substances AbaJ*-merit 
of Milwaukee 

Maybr* Kemp should have hireel that 
strippiT. 


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Neil becomes S&L poster boy 


Bush photos show up 
close to dad’s place 

By Tom Webb 

KntgM-RKktor News Service 

WASHINGTON — As if Neil Bush 
didn t have enough troubles, he’s just 
become — literally — the poster child 
for the savings and loan scandal 
Dozens of posters declaring “JAIL 
NEIL BUSH" have mysteriously ap¬ 


peared this week around the nation's 
capital, some only a few blocks from 
his dad’s place, the White House 
The black-and-white posters feature 
a photo of Neil Bush and bear more 
than a passing resemblance to the old- 
fashioned “wanted” posters once used 
for murderers and bank robbers 
The posters lash out at the cost of 
the S&L scandal and declare that 
“these crimes were committed by the 
rich, for the rich, and they should pay ” 


Despite the demands, it's doubtful 
Neil Bush will ever go to jail because 
nobody has seriously accused him of an 
S&L crime. 

Attorney General Richard Thorn¬ 
burgh, who doesn’t usually discuss in¬ 
vestigations. recently volunteered that 
there’s no evidence linking Bush direct¬ 
ly to any criminal activity That would 
seem to damper the possibility that he 


Please seo NEIL BUSH on 11A 







*ent Orange ends 


law by halting research, groups say 


id er 


)N — The Amen 
largest veterans 
intry said yester 
as bringing suit 
rnment for failing 
udy of the health 
Vietnam War vet- 
to the defoliant 

e filed in federal 
ere today, is the 


cover has trace amounts of dioun, 
which has been shown to cause 
cancer and birth defects in labora¬ 
tory animals. 

The primary thing we want is 
for the government to do a study," 
said John Hanson a spokesman for 
the American Legion the largest 
veterans’ group in America We 
consider any diseases caused by 
Agent Orange the same as getting 
wounded It's an injury of war 


spending had sought 

The House s 327-91 approval of 
the bill that sets agriculture policy 
for the next five years follows Sen¬ 
ate passage last Friday of its ver¬ 
sion with many similar or identi¬ 
cal provisions 

The estimated cost of the sup¬ 
port programs in the two bills is 
estimated to be between $54 bil¬ 
lion and $55 billion 

Though the debate over limiting 
subsidy payments led members to 
shout at one another about fiscal 
responsibility, the most emotional 
moments came when Rep Bill 
Frenzel, R-Minn. tried to cut 
spending on food stamps and other 


r pes r s 

that transmit Lyme disease 

■ TOBACCO: Authorize $10 
million annually for a public ed 
ucation program on the haz¬ 
ards of tobacco use 

■ PESTICIDE Require farmer; 
to keep records on pesticide 
use that could be provided to 
government agencies or em¬ 
ployees and health-care profe; 
sionals concerned about the e 
fects of exposure 

■ ORGANIC: Establish nations 
standards for labeling a food 
orgamcaliy grown 


tic Hunger Relief Act. named 
honor of the congressman fr< 









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Denver! 


:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. 

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& Arapahoe 


Thursday, August 2,1990 















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WANTED: Seemingly unconcerned Washing¬ 
tonians amble past one of a rash of ‘Jail Neil 


Special to The Denver Post / Vicki Lewis 

Bush’ placards in the capital. They’re aimed at 
his alleged involvement in the S&L scandal. 


Posters call for Neil Bush’s jailing 


NEIL BUSH from Page 1A 

will be charged in connection 
with the failure of Denver’s Sil¬ 
verado Banking Savings and 
Loan, much less jailed. 

Bush was a director of Silvera¬ 
do during the mid-1980s, and re¬ 
signed from the board shortly be¬ 
fore it failed in 1988. Bush is 
alleged to have some serious con¬ 
flicts of interest in the case, and 


faces a possible civil lawsuit by 
the federal government as it 
seeks to recover some of the $1 
billion Silverado loss. 

The White House offered no 
comment. Neil Bush was unavail¬ 
able for comment. 

Political posters have a color¬ 
ful recent history in Washington. 
Former House Speaker Jim 
Wright was the target of a “want¬ 
ed” poster blitz that swept the 


city just weeks before he resigned 
amid allegations of impropriety 
in office. Ronald Reagan’s attor¬ 
ney general, Edwin Meese, once 
was hit with the slogan: “Experts 
agree! Meese is a pig.” 

One of the creators of th^t slo¬ 
gan, Washington artist Jeff Nel¬ 
son, was asked yesterday wheth¬ 
er he’d created the "Jail Neil 
Bush’’ posters. 

“No, but I wish I had,” he said. 













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3\Two employees of the Mint at 

Denver were among 100 Treasury. 
Department employees honored at the 
Secretary’s Annual Ceremony. Mi¬ 
chael P. Lantz, coin production gener¬ 
al foreman, received the Performance 
‘ Award and Boris Nikolayevsky, me- < 
chanical engineer, was honored for his 
V design and construction of a major 
heating, ventilating and air condition- V. 
ing system improvement project... 

1 KD Kanopy Inc., has been selected as 
I the Outstanding Business of the 
. Month by the Northwest Metro “ 
'Chamber of Commerce and the City of : 
. Arvada for the month of AugustrKD 
[ Kanopy has-been involved in the Ar- '' ^ 
/vada communityandnon-profitactivi- 
J ties, including events with the Arvada'"“ 


-I . 1 (/ . - 

M. D., has joined the Rocky Mountain directorof vocational education for 

Multiple Sclerosis Center as director Aurpra Pubic Schools, played a key 
w^ ur0 .*°JQ r- The Rocky Mountain'_ role in the design and construction of 


T.H, Pickens Technical Center, which 
opened in 1972. Dunning is a leader in 
the Colorado Vocational Association, 

■ th Association .of Vocational Adminis-^] 
trators and the Area Vocational Schoof- - 
Directors Association' Dnhart c 



MS Center is a private, non-profit 
institute providing diagnosis, second E? 
opinion, ongoing neurological care, in-? 
patient and outpatient rehabilitation,'--^ 
psychological services, and special 
problem management... Jeffrey Hor- 
gan of Aurora, is one of 10 students 
selected to take part in the Great 
Vienna Adventure 1990, sponsored by 
the Vienna Tourist Board and the - - 
American Association of Teachers of 
German. Horgan, a Gateway High 
School senior, will be the guest at a 
,.dinner reception hosted by the mayor 
of Vienna.... Harold B. Dunning will'- 

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U.9. Tieaeurer i 
Catalina Vanquei ' 

Villapando was 

hoiked at a re¬ 
ception hotted by 

the Republican 
National Hlapanlc 
Aftaembly of Colo 
redo Friday. 

"Wr'ie privi¬ 
leged to have Cat' 
alma here/' iuiid 
Gloria Gonial©* 

Roemer Republican candidate for 
Colorado's 1st Congressional 
Hou.vr Nf\it, whose own house was 
the Mte of the reception. “She's 
the perfect role model for Hispanic 
women She's worked hard to get 
where she's at. Catalina's blight, 
articulate, attractive and genuine¬ 


Ivan 

Suvanjleff 


ly linear*/' 

Villapando. whole Signature ap¬ 
pears on U S. paper currency, 
signed dollar bills for assembly 
members including Janice Rome 

ro, Art Barela, Maxine and Joo 
Chavei. Jennifer Needham, Ed 
Romero, Ronl Hutcheson, Brian 
Varney. Phyllle Garcia, Joe Meet. 
Frances Ferris and Roomer’s 
press secretary. Janelle Jones. 

As Mike Hughes, Joan Hayet, 
John Cary, Jocelyn Learned Gib 
son, Norma Tromp and the assem¬ 
bly’s national secretary Bob Marti 
nei listened to the strolling 
maruuhi hand, Villapando reflect¬ 
ed on her fame. 

“Only m America can this hap¬ 
pen.” Villapando said, signing an¬ 
other dollar. “My father was born 


in Mexico and comet from very 
humble beginnings. It'* truly an 
honor (or me and my family." 

Polo Newt: The Denver Polo 
Club defeated Mexico's Balvenera 
Polo Club hy a score of 5-4 yester¬ 
day in a match benefiting public 
broadcasters KRMA TV Channel 6 
and KUV0 89.3FM 

More than 300 polo ntavent 
trotted out to the Cottonwood 
Riding Club to watch the match, 
raising a total of $5,000. 

Attendees included club presi¬ 
dent John Gendomer, Carlene 
Welker, Larry Roblnaon. Jody 
Reed, Patrick Pomltky, Kathleen 
Sullivan, Dr. Doug Ikeler, Sally 
Reed, Bill Thorn, Sandra Stew 
art, Zoe Mourlee and Wendy Sin 
clalr 



Treasurer Catalina Vasquez Villapando signs a dollar bill for her 
hostess. Gloria Gonzales Roemer, also running for Congress. 






Mon . Sept 10. 1990 Rocky Mountain News 

‘Matter of self-respect’ 
fuels U.S. chess champ 



Shelby 

Lyman 


Lev AJburt, the 
new U.S. chess 
champion, is a 
tough and some¬ 
times unnerving 
opponent with an 
ambitious and bru¬ 
tally practical ap¬ 
proach to competi¬ 
tive play. 

“I believe very 
much in the ele¬ 
ment of luck,” he 
said. “I can be 
very well pre¬ 


pared. but my opponent may hap- 
i pen to be better prepared in the 
same opening. 

“Since I am a maximalist who 
r the highest result, 


Alburt’s results spectacularly 
justify his philosophy. He has won 
three U.S. championships in eight 
tries. Then again, last year, his all- 
out posture left him in a tie for last 
place. 

Away from the chessboard, the 
former Soviet physics professor is 
a low-keyed but fascinating con¬ 
versationalist. 

During play, he manages a simi¬ 
lar objectivity. “I usually don’t get 
excited when 1 win or very upset 
when I lose. And 1 very rarely lose 
confidence, even if my results are 
poor. 1 think I take myself less 
seriously than many of my oppo¬ 
nents.” 

It is, perhaps, because he is not 
afraid to lose, that Alburt plays so 
[11 v for the win. It's rare 


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Body shops in 7th heaven 
after car-pocking hailstorm 



By Peter Sleeth 

Denver Post Business Writer 

Jim Carmichael leaned back 
in a worn office chair, took a 
pull off a cold A&W Root Beer, 
and put to rest any notion that 
his compatriots in the auto¬ 
body repair business are any¬ 
thing but happy with the results 
of the July 11 hail storm 

'Everyone I’ve talked to is 
tickled to death they’ve had 
this help from God, so to 
speak, said Carmichael, own¬ 
er of Deluxe Auto Body on Den¬ 
ver’s West Eighth Avenue. 

Everyone who is not a cus¬ 
tomer, that is. 

The Great Hailstorm of ’90 


has turned into the great body 
shop repair bonanza of ’90 and 
’91. Body shops are swamped 
with customers who want those 
unsightly hail dimples out out 
out. 

The problem for customers 
is getting in, in, in. 

Body repair shops that just 
one short month ago were hun¬ 
gry for work are now booking 
car repairs from three to six 
months in advance. Some hor¬ 
ror stories by despondent car 
owners have appointments be¬ 
ing scheduled into March 1991. 

And body shop owners say 
they still will be pounding out 
the golf ball-size dents this 


time next year. 

"Every day we get 15 days' 
worth of work,” said Brad Mar¬ 
tin of Martin’s Autoworks in 
Lakewood. 

"I had a two-week backlog 
up until the hailstorm,” said 
Vince Vecchiarelli, manager of 
Hank’s Auto Body West in 
Wheat Ridge. “Now it’s a six- 
month delay.” 

Insurance experts are esti¬ 
mating 115,000 vehicles will 
file $200 million to $230 million 
worth of claims as a result of 
the storm that roared from 
north of Denver south to Castle 


Please see HAIL on 10A 


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■ BE SUSPICIOUS of any 
shop that can get your car 
in immediately. Most repu¬ 
table shops have a back¬ 
log that stretches into late 
this year or early next 
year 

■ ASK TO see samples of 
a shop’s work, not only for 
hail damage but for colli¬ 
sion work from the past. 

■ ASK FOR recommenda¬ 
tions from friends, co¬ 
workers and insurance 
companies. 

■ ASK FOR references 
from other customers of 
the shop you are consider¬ 
ing. 

■ ASK ABOUT written 
warranties and ask to see 
them on labor and materi¬ 
als 


‘Mr. Perfect’ 
stumbled on 
road to riches 

Greed, naivete possible 
source of Bush’s troubles 

By Steven Wilmsen 

Denver Post Business Wnter 

Neil Bush came to Denver to cash in on 
the easy money of the city’s booming oil 
economy. 

This was to be his proving ground, 
where he left behind a childhood struggle 
with dyslexia and 
stepped out of his sib¬ 
lings’ shadows. Here 
he would show he 
could be, like his fa¬ 
ther, a man of stat¬ 
ure. 

It didn’t turn out 
that way. The “Mr. 
Perfect” of the five Bush children has be¬ 
come a symbol of the greed and abuse that 
drove the country to its worst financial 
crisis in history. ^ 

In public hearings this September, regu¬ 
lators will try to impose a disciplinary ac- 



■ FLAWS: A rela¬ 
tive's misstep 
never scuttled a 
presidency /12A 

■ USELESS: Sil¬ 
verado memo 
dismisses board 
as useless./! 2A 


Denver Post File Photo 

CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: Neil campaigns for his father in 1988. 


tion against Bush for what they call the 
“worst kind” of conflicts of interest while 
he was on the board of Silverado Banking 
savings and loan. 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is 
expected to name him in a $200 million 
lawsuit charging that Silverado’s directors 
ignored their duty to halt abusive prac¬ 
tices at the failed thrift. 

"Neil Bush has cast this issue in a whole 
new light,” said Robert Litan, a senior fel¬ 


low at the Brookings Institution in Wash¬ 
ington. “He’s made an obscure and com¬ 
plicated scandal easier for people to get 
their arms around.” 

In recent weeks, Bush suddenly has re¬ 
fused to speak to the press, and he de¬ 
clined to be interviewed for this article. 
But in a flurry of press conferences and 
interviews he held last month and earlier 

Please see NEIL on 12A 


Please see COTTER on 15A 

Baker dodges 
PR bullets 
over hunt 
in Mongolia 

By The Washington Post 

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State 
James Baker’s planned visit this week to 
Mongolia, a country low on the list of 
American diplomatic priorities, has 
caused grumbling within the State Depart¬ 
ment because some officials believe diplo¬ 
macy has been fashioned to suit Baker’s 
hunting needs. 

The visit, and the grumbling, began with 
a Mongolian invitation last fall for Baker 
to stop in that coun¬ 
try 

Mongolian officials 
also held out the op¬ 
portunity for Baker, 
an enthusiastic hunt¬ 
er, to try to shoot an 
exotic argali sheep, 
according to govern¬ 
ment and private 
sources. 

A threatened spe¬ 
cies, the argali sports 
horns that can grow to , 

6 feet. Baker 

Its mounted head is considered a major 
trophy, particularly among Texas sports¬ 
men. 

Yesterday, in response to a query from 
The Washington Post, Baker spokeswom¬ 
an Margaret Tutwiler said Baker has no 
intention of hunting the argali. 

Instead, Tutwiler said, Baker will take 
time off on his last days in Mongolia this 
week fishing and perhaps hunting “wild 
goats (that) are not on any threatened 

lists.” 

“He would not ever hunt something that 
was endangered or threatened or about to 
be on those lists,” Tutwiler said. 

A State Department official said yester¬ 
day that Baker might “try to see an argali, 
but he won’t shoot it.” 

Even the Mongolian government consid¬ 
ers the Altai Mountain Argali so rare that 
it only allows 25 to be killed in one year 
and normally charges hunters, such as 
Baker, $25,000 for a permit to shoot the 
animal, according to a spokesman for the 
World Wildlife Fund. 












































Leader of i niiidad coup attempt 
threatens to kill prime minister 


Vy Th# AmdcwM Ptmi 

IX)BT OF-8PAIN, Trinidad A 
black Moslem leader of an at¬ 
tempted coup threatened ycuter 
day to blow up the prime minister 
and other government leaders held 
hostage by his group, a churchman 
said One report said 22 people 
dies! in the uprising. 

Government-run radio an 
nounced late in the day that a set¬ 
tlement had been reached with the 
rebel leader It said the leader of 
the rebels, who have been linked to 
Libya, had asked for a plane to 
take him and his supporters to that 
North African country 

The radio report, which quoted 


TV NIWS SNOWS 

Here is a rundown of today's 
television interview shows 

■ This Week With David Brink- 
ley (KUSA-TV. Channel 9. 11 
a m . ABC) C. Boyden Gray. 
White House counsel, Faye 

i Wattleton. Planned Parenthood 
\ Federation ot America. Arthur 
\ Kropp. People tor the American 
' Way. Sualn Smith, associate 
legislative director. National 
Right to Life Committee; and j 
I Richard ViQuerie. United Con- i 
servatlvea of America, on the 
Souter nomination 

■ Meet the Preaa — (KCNC-TV, 
Channel 4. 9 30 a m . NBC) 
Reps Newt Gingrich. R-Ga . 
and William Dannemeyer R- 
Calif; and political consultant 
David Keene, on the conserva¬ 
tive agenda in the 90s 

■ Face the Nation — (KMGH- 
TV. Channel 7. 9 30 a m . CBS) 
Charles Black. Republican Na¬ 
tional Committee; Fred Barnes. 
New Republic; Eleanor Clift, 
Newsweek, on future of GOP 

■ Newsmaker Sunday — (Ca¬ 
ble Network News. 8 30 a m . 
CNN) — William Kunstler. Cen¬ 
ter for Constitutional Rights. 
Richard Viguerie. United Con¬ 
servatives of America; Sen 
Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz , and 
Sen Charles Grassley. R-lowa. 
Judiciary Committee, on the 
Souter nomination 


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an unidentified police nupei'intcn 
dent, could not be immediately 
confirmed. The report did not May 
if the government had accepted 
the request to provide the plane, 

In addition, the station reported 
a gunbuttlc late yesterday after 
announcing the settlement It said 
four people were wounded In the 
clash between two policemen and 
two civilians outside a television 
station where the rebels were 
holding hostages It gave no de¬ 
tails 

The report of deaths in Friday 
afternoon's takeover of the Parlia¬ 
ment building and subsequent 
fighting came from the Barbados- 
based Caribbean News Agency 
Officials gave no casualty figures, 
but the Red Cross Issued an urgent 
call for blood donations. 

Roman Catholic Archbishop An¬ 
thony Panltn said the coup leader, 
Abu Bakr, told him the prime min¬ 
ister and the other officials cap¬ 
tured Friday “are wired up with 
explosives.” 

Pantln said on state radio the 
threat was relayed in a 25-minute 
telephone conversation with Bakr, 
who threatened to blow up the cap¬ 
tives and himself if government 
troops mounted an attack on the 
rebel-held television station. 

The Moslem rebels fired auto¬ 
matic weapons in storming the 
Parliament building, seizing 
Prime Minister Arthur N. Robin¬ 
son and several Cabinet ministers. 

Police in the former British col¬ 
ony of two islands off the Venezue¬ 
lan coast imposed a curfew until 
this afternoon, and Jhe acting pres¬ 
ident declared a state of emergen¬ 
cy 

The acting president, Joseph 
Emmanuel Carter, put the 5,000- 
member army and 1,500-member 
police force on alert. President 



Noor llassan.di wan in London 
Jones Madeira, the television 
station's news director, who is be¬ 
ing held by the rebels, said in a 
telephone interview yesterday 
with a government-controlled ra¬ 


dio station that Bakr had invited 
the archbishop to meet with him at 
the television building. 

Madeira said there was shooting 
outside the television building and 
asked that it stop because it endan¬ 
gered hostages there. 

Pantin and Anglican Bishop 
Clive Abdullah went to the occu¬ 
pied television station last night 
for negotiations with Bakr, accord¬ 
ing to government-run radio. At¬ 
torney General Anthony Smart 
said on the radio that talks were 
under way with Bakr for the re¬ 
lease of hostages. 




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4. 1991 




Mint looks to 


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By Alan Herbert 

"Mth s"Stall Writer 

The U.S. Mint is embarking on a 
major modernization plan that will see 
some vital changes in the next five 
years. 

Building on the successful installation 
of high-speed coin presses at Denver in 
the past several years, the Mint is look¬ 
ing toward increasing Denver capacity 
to the point where it will exceed that of 
the main mint at Philadelphia by fiscal- 
year 1996 

With other sweeping changes, includ¬ 
ing the possible installation of a die 
shop at either Denver or San Francisco, 
the logistics of supplying both circulat¬ 
ing and collectible coins will bring about 
some important changes in the way the 
Mint operates 

For the first time the Mint has admit¬ 
ted in its annual report to Congress that 
it is still operating coin presses to stnke 
collectible coins that are 90 or more 
years old. It plans "replacement of all 
the old Mint standard and Columbia 
presses (some of which date from the 
turn of the century) 

A couple of the new presses are 
already running at both San Francisco 
and West Point, with three new presses 


headed for San Francisco this year. An 
average of six new presses a year are 
scheduled for the two mints through 
1996. 

Production plans for the circulating 
coins call for 23 of the old Bliss finger- 
feed presses to be retired by 1996, 
replaced by 28 new hiRh-sDced presses 


Following arc excerpts from the U.S. 
Mini’s wniicn answers to questions submit¬ 
ted by the House Subcommittee on Con¬ 
sumer Affairs and Coinage 

Is the Mini still interested in hating the 
name “U.S. Mint" protected to help alleviate 
fraud? 

Yes The Treasury Department intends lo 
submit legislation to amend 18 U.S.C. 709, 
relating to "False advertising or misuse of 
names lo indicate Federal agency." by adding 
the U.S. Mint to the list of federal agencies 
currently protected This legislation would 
require all persons lo obtain the permission 
of the Director of ihe Mint before using the 
words United States Mint or any imitation of 
such words in a way reasonably calculated to 
convey the impression that such use is 
approv ed or endorsed by the Mini 

Over the recent years, there has been a 
growing tendency towards using "U S. Mint" 
in an advertisement or as a portion of the 


capable of striking a minimum of 700 
coins per minute. 

For purposes of comparison, the Mint 
cites capacities of 129.6 million coins 
per year for a Bliss finger-feed press. 162 
million per year for the converted Bliss 

Mint/Page 12 


company name for the sole purpose of 
attracting the attention of potential custom¬ 
ers. Most of these businesses offer numis¬ 
matic products, either their own medals or 
medallions or U S Mint products, and the 
use of the Mint’s name may suggest to the 
public that this business is somehow asso¬ 
ciated or approved by the U S Mint For 
example, we know of two private companies 
that have used the name "U.S Mint. Inc " to 
sell numismatic or mcdallic items Another 
example involved a private company which 
offered for sale a purported "UNITED 
STATES MINT SPECIAL SILVER 25 
YEAR COIN SET " At the lop portion of the 
advertisement in large bold type is the phrase 
"UNITED STATES MINT" and the name 
U S Mint appeared numerous times 
throughout the ad 

How much of a problem has mail and coin 

Name/Page 12 


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Mint/ from Page 4 
dial-feed presses, and 165 million coins 
per year for the new Schuler and 
Graebner presses that are being 
installed at Denver and Philadelphia 

Projections for the replacement pro¬ 
gram estimate capacity for 1991 at 20.9 
billion coins, which will increase to 22.7 
billion coins by 1996. 

Because of the increasing demand for 
coins in the western part of the country , 
production at Denver is scheduled to 
increase with the installation of new 
presses, new coin handling and materi¬ 
als handling equipment, and other 
improvements. If all goes according to 
plan the 1996 production at Denver will 
exceed that at Philadelphia by a small 
margin. 

As a result of seismic studies con¬ 
ducted after the San Francisco earth¬ 
quake of 1989, it was determined that 
the Old San Francisco Mint requires 
substantial structural strengthening, 
with costs estimated at some $20 mil¬ 
lion. Similar correctional work at the 
current San Francisco Mint is estimated 
at $2 million, which will be included in, 
the 1993 budget. 

West Point, which finally achieved 
full mint status in 1988. will be getting 
other upgrades besides new semiauto¬ 
matic numismatic coin presses. Even 
Fort Knox, which the Mint admits has 
had limited maintenance over the years, 
is due for some significant repair work. 

Buried in the statistics covering the 

Name/from PaRC 4 

fraud been to the US. Mint in recent years? 

We estimate that on an average, we receive 
12 inquiries per month from the public con¬ 
cerning advertisements where there is poten¬ 
tial fraud or misrepresentation In some 
instances, consumers attempt to place orders 
with us. not realizing that the offers were not 
made by the Mint 

We are also concerned with the overall 
impact upon the numismatic community. If 
these companies arc not stopped, the con¬ 
sumer will eventually grow distrustful of the 
entire numismatic field and his interest in 
purchasing com products will decline 
What types of actions have been taken to 
prevent individuals and companies from mis¬ 
representing their numismatic products to the 
public? 

The U S. Mint has recently obtained a 
registered trademark for the words “United 


wide variety of new construction, new 
equipment and new methodology is a 
response to a question that indicates the 
Mint is planning to add edge lettenng to 
proof coins. 

Although the answer is vague as to 
whether this is intended just for com¬ 
memorative proof coins or whether it 
will also be applied to the proof versions 
of the circulating coins, it docs mark a 
major milestone in U.S. coin produc¬ 
tion. 

As but one example of the impact that 
modem technology is having on com 
production, the Mint notes in the report 
that plans are under way to put bar 
codes on dies/. Traditionally, dies have 
had serial numbers, but these must be 
physically scanned by human eyes to 
record the numbers. 

Bar coding will addio the benefits of 
automation and enable the Mint to keep 
more detailed records of die usage. 

It’s also interesting to note that the 
U.S. Mint is completely out of the strip¬ 
making business, depending entirely on 
outside suppliers for either strip or fin¬ 
ished planchcts for all of the coins from 
the cent through the clad coinage and 
the silver and gold bullion and com¬ 
memorative coins. As part of the mod¬ 
ernization, new blanking presses using 
carbide dies are being phased in to 
replace outmoded equipment, and mod¬ 
ernization is also taking place in the 
annealing area. 


States Mint.” Wc arc currently working with 
the Justice Department on one company's 
use of the name “U.S. Mint, Inc." on grounds 
of trademark infringement With regard to 
potentially deceptive advertisements, our 
general practice is to forward the ads to the 
U S. Postal Service for investigation into 
possible mail fraud violations. The Mint has 
no law enforcement authority itself in this 
area. 

Would the Mint favor a common reverse 
for Congressional Gold Medals? 

Yes, the Mint favors a common reverse on 
all Congressional Gold Medals for the fol¬ 
lowing reasons: 

■ It is very cost effective since new reverse 
dies, with associated engraving work, will not 
be required for new medals 

■ It can save lime and effort in the design 
approval process. It has been the Mint’s 

Name/ Page 16 













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NOTE: ALL COINS ARE PCGS GRADED. 

* ■ Recent addition to inventory (within last 2 weeks). 

A - Currently within the Condition Census (Highest 5 Graded) 
as of 5/91 PCGS Pop. Report. 

PQ = Premium quality for grade (in our opinion). 

MINTAGE: Blank if over 100,000 



H1O0 SILVER 


Data-MM, Var 

Dan 

Mintage 

PCGSGnJ 

Note 

Price 

1795 

H10C 

86.416 

F-15 

PQ 

1.200 

1795 

H10C 

86.416 

VF-35 

PQ 

2,350 

1795 

H10C 

86.416 

XF-45 


3,050 

1797 15 Str 

H10C 

44,527 

VF-25 

PQ 

2.250 

1803 Lg Ot 

H10C 

37,850 

F-15 

PQ 

1.150 

1830 

H10C 

— 

AU-50 

PQ 

550 

1831 

H10C 

— 

MS-63 

PQ 

3,350 

1838 NDrap 

H10C 

_ 

AU-58 


275. 

1840 Drape 

H10C 

— 

MS-60 

PQ 

1.250 

1842-0 

H10C 

— 

VF-20 


275 

1842-0 

H10C 

_ 

VF-30 

▲ 

365 

1844-0 

H10C 

— 

XF-45 

A 

975. 

1848 Lg Ot 

H10C 

— 

MS-63 

PQ 

5.150 

1851-0 

H10C 

— 

MS-62 

*PQ 

825 

1863 

H10C 

18.460 

MS-62 

*PQ 

875 

1865-S 

H10C 

— 

AU-55 

▲ 

725 

1866 

. H10C 

10,725 

All-55 


650 

1866 

H IOC 

10.725 

MS-62 

PQ 

950 

1868-S 

H10C 

— 

MS-63 

PQ 

1.250 


100 SILVER 


Date-MM, Var 


*1 DOLLAR G 


Date-MM. Var 


1853-0 
1855 U 
1855-C 

1857- S 

1858- 0 

1858- S 

1859- S 

1860- S 
1870-S 
1877 


Date-MM Var 

1839-C 

1841-C 

1843-0 

1843-0 

1843- 0 Sm Ot 
1844 

1844- C 
1844-C 

1848- C Sharp 

1849- 0 


Dan 

Mintage 

1.0 

_ 

10 

_ 

10 

9,803 

10 

10.000 

.1.0 

3.477 

10 

10.000 

10 

15.000 

10 

13.000 

10 

3.000 

10 

3,920 

’DOLLAI 

Dan 

Mintage 

25 

18.140 

25 

10.281 

25 

36.209 

2.5 

36.209 

25 

_ 

25 

6.784 

25 

11.622 

25 

11.622 

25 

16.788 

25 

10.945 



































16 


NUMISMATIC NEWS 


June 4. 1991 


Name/from Page 12 
experience that receiving approval of reverse 
designs b> prospective recipients is much 
more time consuming and labor intensive 
than approvals of obverse designs Reverse 
designs tend to be thematic and. therefore, 
subject to more revisions than obverse 
designs which are usually simply a portrait of 
the recipient(s) 

■ Often, having the medal available for a 
specific event is important to the marxcting 
effectiveness of a medal program Delays in 
obtaining final approvals for designs/engrav- 
ings could seriously affect this timing 

Do you anticipate that the public will ever 
want a dollar coin? la 5. 10. 15 years? 

The Mint will respond in earnest to any 
dollar com legislation passed by Congress 
There seem to be two facts that arc ingrained 
relative to the coin behavior of the public 
First, the public has not expressed any desire 
for a dollar coin Second, in all industrial 
nations where a high denomination com was 
introduced, success in circulation was not 
achieved until the corresponding note was 
withdrawn The Mint believes that there 
would be substantial uproar from the public 
if the dollar note was withdrawn The intro¬ 
duction of a dollar com into circulation 
requires a change in public sentiment The 
time for such a change is not predictable 

W hat are the current costs of producing the 
penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar? 

The 1990 production costs for domestic 


coinage are as 
lar): 

follows (in fractions of a dol- 

Penny 

.0077 

Nickel 

0342 

Dime 

0171 

Quarter 

0382 

Half 

0729 


Should the subcommittee consider changing 
the gold Kagle from 22 karat to 24 karat to 
improve its marketability in the Far Fast? 

This is a difficult question to answer with a 
simple yes or no Listed below are the pros 
and cons of changing the gold Eagle from 22 
karat to 24 karat 

■ Pros The Eagle's primary competitors 
worldwide are 24 karat including the Cana¬ 
dian Maple Leaf the Australian Nugget, the 
Chinese Panda and Austrian Philharmomca 
Vk c understand that the South Africans arc 
considering changing the Krugerrand to 24 
karat also 

Twenty-four karat coins account for 


approximately 80 percent of all gold coins 
sold worldwide 

A 24 karat Eagle will help marketability 
particularly in the Far East where fineness is 
important and perhaps also in the United 
States, currently our largest market 
■ Cons: The Mint has sold millions of 22 
karat Eagles and it is likely that many of 
them are still in the market place If the 
United States issues a 24 karat Eagle, these 
22 karat coins may be perceived as inferior 
and it is conceivable that customers could 
demand replacements for them 

The Mint has often promoted the durabil¬ 
ity aspect of the 22 karat coins in its advertis¬ 
ing (it is harder metal and more resistant to 
scratching and other damage) Replacing it 
with a softer 24 karat coin could reduce the 
Mint's credibility with the consumer 
The future of the Mint's very profitable 22 
karat Proof Eagle Program could be jeopar¬ 
dized We have never produced a 24 karat 
proof coin and we recognize there could be 
technical difficulties in doing so 

Why does the Mint manage the Proof Eagle 
program separately from the Uncirculated 
Eagle program? 

The legislation establishing the gold and 
silver bullion Eagle programs did not autho¬ 
rize the minting of proof versions of the 
coins The Mint used its existing numismatic 
authority to issue proof versions of the 
bullion coins The coin programs thus are run 
as separate programs, reflecting their differ¬ 
ent pricing (one reflecting the daily shifting 
intrinsic value of the coin, the other reflect¬ 
ing a numismatic premium) and different 
marketing. 

Additionally, the Mint's numismatic fund¬ 
ing authority in 31 U.S.C. 5132(a) (I) allows 
us to use the proceeds of the sale of an item 
only to reimburse the appropriation that 
funded the item. Excess revenue must be 
turned over to the general fund of the Trea¬ 
sury Thus, numismatic revenue produced by 
one product (c g the gold bullion com) can¬ 
not be used for expenses of other products 
(e g the gold proof bullion coin I 

Does the Mint support combining the pro¬ 
grams'* If yes — can the Mint provide lan¬ 
guage on this proposal? 

Yes Combining the revenues from the 
numismatic coin programs will allow the 
Mint to shift funds from successful programs 
to support advertising and market develop¬ 
ment costs to improve the success of less 
profitable programs 


The Public Enterprise Fund legislation 
that Treasury introduced last year, and 
intends to reintroduce this year, would 
achieve this result 

In Germany and Japan gold bullion coins 
can be purchased at most bank branches, lias 
the Mint considered establishing programs to 
market the Eagles through banks? What has 
been the outcome? 

In countries such as Germany and Japan. 
Eagles and other bullion coins are frequently 
marketed through banks The Mint has also 
been working on establishing programs to 
market the Eagles through banks in the 
United States However, most U S banks 
have expressed very little interest in carrying 
ours or any other bullion coins for one over¬ 
riding reason lack of profitability in this 
business Many banks have tried implement¬ 
ing precious metals programs only to subse¬ 
quently close them down due to lack of 
account holder interest and the very slim 
profit margins associated with bullion coins 

Nevertheless, the Mint has continued to 
work closely with its authorized purchaser! 
and large secondary precious metals dealers 
in attempting to get more banks involved in 
carrying American Eagles To date, such 
efforts have been met with only marginal suc¬ 
cess and as a result, most Eagle distributors 
have all but given up on trying to convince 
the banks to carry bullion coins 

Is the Post Office a viable distribution point 
for Siher iagles’ iias the Mint pursued dis¬ 
cussions with the Post Office? If so. what has 
been the outcome’ 

The Post Office is a questionable distribu¬ 
tion point for Silver Eagles The postal auth¬ 
orities we have spoken to on this subject are 
concerned about 

' the low profit margins traditionally asso¬ 
ciated with bullion coins. 

* effectively securing and accounting for 
coin inventories and 

• developing a mechanism for informing 
their employees of the current spot price of 
silver as they sell the coins 

We are continuing to talk to the Post 
Office and are currently working with them 
in displaying our point o! purchase materials 
in some of their West Coast offices as a mar¬ 
ket test 

Does the Mint make kmrrican Siher taglr 
coins available in both proof and uncirculated 
condition at its retail sales centers? If not. 
would it be profitable to make arrangements to 
do so? 


In the past, we have used a direct mail 
offering to the Mint's customer list to sell the 
Proof Eagles Last year, the first year the 
Mint announced limited mintages on ns 
Proof Eagles, the entire mintage of proof 
Eagles was sold out through this direct mail 
offering. In the future, if inventories of Proof 
Eagles remain after the initial Mint mailing, 
the Mint would be able to offer the coins to 
the public through its sales centers. 

The uncirculated coins, as a policy. are cur¬ 
rently not sold directly to the public but to a 
group of authorized purchasers who have 
met stringent financial criteria and who buy 
from the Mint in large quantities The large 
purchasers then make the coins available at 
the wholesale and retail level 

By way of background, the American Eagle 
Bullion Coins are directed toward the pre¬ 
cious metals investment markets and are pri¬ 
marily purchased by investors interested in 
gold and silver as commodities To ensure 
that the U S. bullion coins are highly compet¬ 
itive in price, liquidity and availability with 
other bullion coins in the domestic and inter¬ 
national markets, and to ensure that a two- 
way market exists for the coins, the United 
Slates Mint utilizes the well-established net¬ 
work in the private sector for the worldwide 
distribution of the coins. Therefore, the U S 
bullion coins are sold in bulk quantities to 
business firms (authorized purchasers) which 
have mcl strict qualifying criteria and have 
been approved by the U5. Mini The author¬ 
ized purchasers provide the bullion coins to 
the retail market where individuals are able 
to purchase (he American Eagle Bullion 
Coins at local coin shops and from precious 
metal dealers, brokerage firms, various banks 
and other financial institutions 

Pricing of the American Eagle Silver 
Bullion Coins is based on the market price of 
silver plus a premium The premium charged 
by the Mint to its authorized purchasers is SI 
per coin. Prices on tbe retail level will vary 
depending on the quantity 
If the Mint were to sell the bullion coins 
directly to individuals, there would still be a 
premium charged to customers In addition 
to the premium the Mint currently charges its 
authorized purchasers to cover the cost of 
production, marketing and distribution a 
higher price would result from the significant 
increase tbe Mint would incur in tbe distri¬ 
bution cost Additional staff as well as 
increased overhead and automation costs 
would raise the price of the coins 





June 4,1991 


NUMISMATIC NEWS 


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Ryder may be 
next director 
of U.S. Mint 

By Burnett Anderson 

Sews" Washington Bureau w 

For the first time in decades, a 
leading candidate for the position 
of U S Mint director is a man, 
David J. Ryder, deputy to U.S. 
Treasurer Catalina V Vdlalpando 

Ryder came to the Treasury 
almost I •h years ago from a posi¬ 
tion as deputy chief of staff to Vice 
President Dan Quaylc. Unlike 
some of his predecessors in the 
Treasury office, he has avoided 
public exposure and has had little 
contact with the press. 

In response to questions about 
filling the vacancy. Steve Gibson, 
press secretary to the U.S treasurer, 
said he had heard the reports that 
Ryder was a candidate for the posi¬ 
tion, but be had no information on 
the appointment 

The office of Charles G. Unter- 
meycr, director of presidential per¬ 
sonnel at the White House, 
declined comment. 

Director/Page 24 


Director/from Page i 

t position of U S. Mint director 
has been a monopoly of women execu¬ 
tives for almost 30 years and. with one 
exception, for almost 30 years before 
that 

The tradition in the position was 
begun by President Franklin Roosevelt, 
when he appointed Nellie Tayloe Ross 
in 1933. She had an unusually long ten¬ 
ure, 22 years, and was succeeded by 
William H Brett, who served until 
1961. 

Since then the directors have been, 
successively. Eva Adams, Mary Brooks. 
Stella Hackel Sims, and the incumbent. 
Donna Pope 

For some lime, the post was consid¬ 
ered something of a sinecure, a desirable 
sub-cabinet level position of some 
prominence supervising an experienced 
professional staff 

However, with the resumption of 
commemorative coinage in 1982, intro¬ 
duction of bullion coins, and other 
innovations, Pope's tenure has required 
full-time, hands-on direction and has 
given the job high visibility. She has 
announced her intention to leave later 
this year after completing two five-year 
appointments. 

The reports of Ryder's candidacy 
came at a time when feminist leaders 
were leveling criticism at President 
Bush for alleged failure to appoint suffi¬ 
cient women to responsible executive 
positions in his administration. 

Only one other name has surfaced 
prominently as a candidate, that of Bar¬ 
bara E McTurk, superintendent of the 
Denver Mint. She recently visited 
Washington and was interviewed in 
connection with the position, but insid¬ 
ers believe Ryder has the fast track. 

Ryder would bring a measure of expe¬ 
rience to the job. The U.S. treasurer has 
oversight responsibility for the Mint, 
which Ryder has helped exercise as dep¬ 
uty treasurer 

He would also bnng a strong Republi¬ 
can background and long-standing rela¬ 
tionship with Bush He was director of 
operations for the transition team when 
Bush look office in January 1989 
Ryder was also director of operations 
for the 1988 Republican Party conven¬ 
tion, which nominated Bush Prior to 
that, he had been with a private, high- 
volumc computer mail-distribution 
company, TCOM Systems Inc For a 
ume he was director of the advance staff 
under Bush when the latter was vice 
president. 

Ryder is a graduate of Idaho State 
University He and his wife. Margaret, 
have two children. His wife is a member 
of the staff of the White House office of 
presidential personnel 


Pope to Leave Money-Making Job 

| . Donna Pope the former Ohio slate 
successfully held off congressional proposals to 
fojrc a redesign the nation's coins, will leave her 
I position as d,rector of the U.S. Mint later this year. 

I ^ Pope said yesterday she may return to Ohio to 

sms 

K •* <l« l*n»« Mm, mm* 

1989 is likely to succeed Pope. 

Pope* revived a dormant commemorative coin 
urogram during her tenure. It raised millions of dol 
I for the U.s Olympic team and other chanties in 
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f Vol. 35 Issue 1791 


’Enriching coin collecting through knowledge. 
August 8, 1994 


Second die shop on tap at Denver Mint 

Engraving, master die output to stay in Philadelphia 


Groundbreaking for a new die 
production shop at the Denver 
Mint to supplement the only cur¬ 
rent existing die shop at the Phil¬ 
adelphia Mint is scheduled for 
September, with die production 
r to begin sometime by the spring 
of 1996. 

Rich Schemmer, president of 
Combined Organizations of Nu¬ 
mismatic Error Collectors of 
America, learned of the sched¬ 


uled second die shop on July 14 
during a Denver Mint tour by 
collectors and instructors from 
the American Numismatic As¬ 
sociation Summer Conference in 
Colorado Springs. Schemmer 
alerted Coin World with the 
news. 

In a July 21 interview with 
Coin World, Duane R. Sjaarde- 
ma, chief of the Plant Engineer¬ 
ing Division at Denver, said the 


20,000-square-foot addition will 
accommodate production of dies 
for circulating coins, com¬ 
memorative coins and medals. 
Sjaanlema said the planned die 
shop at Denver is projected to be 
capable of producing 50,000 dies 
initially for use at Denver, with 
capability to expand that output 
for Denver or to other Mint fa¬ 
cilities. More than two dozen 
jobs are expected to be added as 
a result. 

Cost of the addition of the die 
shop at Denver is expected to 
cost in excess of $5 million, ex¬ 
clusive of machinery, Sjaardcma 
said. He said construction is ex¬ 
pected to be completed by Janu¬ 
ary 1996, and equipment moved 
in within the next two months. 
Die production could begin 
sometime after March 1996, he 
said. 

Traditionally, the die shop and 
engraving department of the U.S. 
Mint has been located solely at 
the Philadelphia Mint since 1792. 
The Mint has never operated a 
die-making facility at another lo¬ 
cation since the Philadelphia 
Mint opened. 

The Mint’s engraving staff 
will remain in Philadelphia. The 
production of plaster models by 
the Mint’s sculptor-engravers 
will remain in Philadelphia. 
From that stage, the models are 
placed on a Janvier reducing ma¬ 
chine from which a master hub is 
made for later production of 
master dies. All master die pro- 

Pleose see DENVER Page 39 



THr CUTTING and preparation of die stock, as shown here 
at .he Philadelphia Mint, is but one of the operations sched¬ 
uled to be undertaken at the Denver Mint with the addition 
of a die shop there. 













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DENVER from Page 1 

duction will also remain at l*hil- 
adclphia 

It it dunng the master die 
stage that the Mint mark for the 
dies intended for each coinage 
production facility is placed. Tire 
Mint marks will continue to be 
placed on the master dies at Phil¬ 
adelphia. Sjaardema said. The 
master dies lor each obverse and 
reverse com or medal will then 
be sent to Denver. 

The die shop planned at Den¬ 
ver will include a blanking room, 
hubbmg room, heat treating area, 
and a quality control or quality 
assurance area. The Denver facil¬ 
ity will be able to use the master 
dies to produce working hubs, 
and from them, working dies. 

Raw die stock will be cut and 
prepared to proper specifications 
to receive the impressions from 
the working hubs to become 



PRODUCTION OF dies for 
the Denver Mint is ex¬ 
pected to begin at a new 
die shop to be operational 
at the facility in the spring 
of 1996. 

working dies. During the process, 
the dies will be heat-treated, or 
annealed, for hardness. Blueprints 
show that the new die shop will 
house 14 new com vuults. 


Sjaardema said the coin vaults 
will be constructed beneath the 
plunncd die shop, with current 
coin storage space being con¬ 
verted to counting und bagging 
operations or for some other use. 

Crcuiion of a second die shop 
in addition to the Philadelphia fa- 
edity wus originally proposed as 
pan of the United Stales Mint’s 
Fiscal Year 1993 budget request. 
At that time, the cost was pro 
jeeted at $# 5 million, with the 
funding to come from reimburs¬ 
able operations. 

The Mint's rationale for a sec¬ 
ond die shop was tied to a sig¬ 
nificant expansion in reimburs- 
oblc/numismutic operations be¬ 
cause of the production of the 
new silver Proof set beginning in 
1992, additional commcrrawative 
coin programs and additional 
medals. Mint officials were also 
considering a facility to handle 
die production should the current 


Philadelphia operation be dam¬ 
aged or compromised. 

No specific site was suggested, 
although consideration was being 
given ut that time to Denver, San 
Francisco or another secure site 
near a Mint facility. 

"With the current situation, 
we’re quite vulnerable,” Sjaarde¬ 
ma said, noting that if something 
happened to the Philadelphia die 
shop, “the Mint could be out of 
business.” 

Denver's die shop, once opera¬ 
tional, will be able to function as 
a backup to Philadelphia as well 
as handling the additional die 


workload for the Mint's coinage 
und numismatic demands. 

The possibility of the die shop 
coming closer to fruition, und 
specifically in the Denver area, 
was announced in 199.3 dunng a 
Denver Mint tour by ANA Sum¬ 
mer Conference participants. At 
that time, a senior Mint engineer 
mg official was scouting secure 
facilities in the Denver area 
which could accomiTKxlatc a sec¬ 
ond die production shop. 

Sjaardema told Coin World the 
Denver Mint itself win settled 
upon as the logical site for secu¬ 
rity as well as administrative rea¬ 
sons. Q3 


For the Record 


Due to a typographical error, noted the Flowing Hair, Cham 
the Aug. 1 ‘‘Are You Aware” cent as being dated 1793, not 
column on Page 23 should have 1794. G2i 








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Location, severity of marks crucial 
in making final grade determination 




Mint Stale 60 through MS- 
63 Peace dollars were ana¬ 
lyzed in previous install¬ 
ments of this column. For 
lower Uncirculated grades, 
negative aspects of a given 
coin tend to outweigh posi¬ 
tive factors. 

At the MS-64 grade, 
however, a Peace dollar’s 
positive attributes begin to 
gain the upper hand. 

Luster. An MS-64 Peace 
dollar should have luster 
that is original, wholesome, 
and above average quality 
for the date. The dull, impaired, lifeless 
luster which typifies MS-60 to -63 ex¬ 
amples should not be present for MS-64 
Peace dollars. Overdipped Peace dollars 




SUPERIOR MINT luster makes this 1922 Peace 
dollar a high-end Mint State 64 specimen. Minor 
cream-colored spots on the obverse prevent an 
MS-65 grade. 

strikes. The other S Mint dates may also 
be found weakly struck, but on average, 
the 1924-S. 1926-S, 1927-S. 1934-S and 
1935-S will have a somewhat sharper 

jhan the first group of S Mint dates. 











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Sounds of Denver’s growth are 
heard throughout the region 


DENVER from page 2 

munities in Rock Creek and Highlands 
Ranch and Parker and Thornton. Listen 
to dry wall going on around homes in 
Louisville — a coal mining town between 
Denver and Boulder that's grown 20.7% 
since 1990 — and in Castle Rock (20%), 
site of this year's great Parade of Homes. 

And nothing that happens this year. . . 
not the baseball strike, or some cutback in 
federal spending, or another foul-up out at 
our new airpori on the prairie . . . will 


for sore eyes. Do you think you'll find the 
same kinds of deals available a year from 
now? Don't count on it. 


. .. — i'imiiiv - . v* in 

c thcr frij* rran^fornixitions happening 


This is a place where people want to 
buy a house, and spend their youth, and 
meet their mates, and raise their kids, and 
start a business, and make their fortunes. 
And it's even a place where some of them 
want to finish out their final days. 

How do you like the price of a new 
house here in Denver? If you're from the 
West Coast, a three-bedroom with two- 
and-a-half baths, a full basement and a 
master suite — at $135,000 — is a sight 


The site that a $135,000 new house is 
built on was developed one or two years 
ago, when plenty of platted land was still 
left over from the big S&L boom of the 
early 1980s. The ground that a new' house 
goes on next year won't be such a deal. 

Meanwhile, builders and developers are 
coming up against plenty of costs that are 
driving up the price of new homes: new 

prices for water taps, and higher permit 


fees and surcharges, just to name a few. 
They add up to thousands of dollars that 
will affect even the smallest, least expen¬ 
sive new home on the market. 

All of these factors will gain more 
weight, not less, in years to come, as the 
“Make development pay its own way" 
sentiment gains popularity — and as new 
arrivals from other places join the growing 


Please see DENVER page 5 








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Photos by Ufr ie Stover 

Denver attractions: 

ABOVE The Denver 
Center for Perform¬ 
ing Arts hosts the 
Colorado Symphony, 
Opera Colorado, the 
Colorado Ballet, the 
Denver Center The¬ 
atre Company and* 
the Robert Gar-J 
ner/Center Attrac¬ 
tions “Best of Broad¬ 
way ' series 
RIGHT Trinity 
Church at 18th and 
Broadwayjoffers his¬ 
torical tours ^every 
/Sunday. 

BELOW: The United 
States Mint produces 
five billion coins each 
year Free tours are 
conducted week¬ 
days 


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The Denver Post Advertising Supplement 


Sunday, September 11, 1994 


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Omnibus hearing on coin bills 
under consideration by House 


By William T. Gibbs 

COIN WORLD News Editor 

Although it is already half over, the 101st Congress has not 
passed a single bit of numismatic legislation. 

In fact, little substantive activity has happened on the 
numismatic legislative front since the 101st Congress con¬ 
vened Jan. 19, 1989, when compared to the recent flurry of 
bills passed in the 100th Congress and before. 

There are currently more than 35 pieces of numismatic 
legislation before both houses of Congress, ranging in intent 
from seeking commemorative coins, to authorizing national 
gold medals for presentation to various individuals, to fight¬ 
ing drug dealers by tinkering with U.S. Federal Reserve 
notes. 

The House Banking Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs 
and Coinage is considering holding an omnibus hearing, pos¬ 
sibly in March, on several pieces of numismatic legislation. 
However, a spokesman for the subcommittee said a deci¬ 
sion on whether to hold such an omnibus hearing has not 
been made, and no date has been set. 

The first session was not entirely inactive, four bills were 
passed although not by both houses. The House of Repre¬ 
sentatives has passed one measure, and the Senate, four, 
including an amended version of the sole House bill gaining 
approval: 


• S. 681, seeking commemorative coins to mark the 1989- 
1990 centennial celebration of six western states, was ap¬ 
proved by the Senate July 18. 

• S. 148, seeking three commemorative coins honoring the 
50th anniversary of the Mount Rushmore National Memori¬ 
al, was approved by the Senate Nov. 23. 

• S. 428, seeking authorizationi to redesign all U.S. circulat¬ 
ing coinage, was passed by the Senate June 23. 

• H.R. 1553, seeking commemorative coins to mark the 
1989-1990 centennial of six western states and a 90 percent 
silver Proof set, passed the House Nov. 20. The Senate 

"passed an amended version of the bill Nov. 21, and sent the 
measure back to the House. The House has taken no addi¬ 
tional action on the amended version. 

Eleven bills seek commemorative coins, four Senate pro¬ 
posals and seven House bills. In addition to the three bills 
passed by one house, the commemorative coin bills are: 

• S. 814, seeking a circulating gold-colored dollar coin 
commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ discov¬ 
ery of the New World. The bill has been referred to the 
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. A 
hearing is tentatively scheduled before the committe April 
25. 


Please see CONGRESS Page 20 


• S. 1535, seeking commemorative coins 
honoring the World University Games in 
1993. 

• H.R. 1028, seeking commemorative coins 
marking the 50th anniversary of the Mount 
Rushmore National Memorial. The bill has 
been referred to the House Banking Sub¬ 
committee on Consumer Affairs and Coin¬ 
age. 

• H.R. 1607, another measure seeking com¬ 
memorative coins honoring the centennial 
of six western states and a 90 percent silver 
Proof set. 

• H.R. 2754, seeking three commemorative 
coins marking the 1992 500th anniversary of 
Columbus’ first voyage to the New World, 
and one of several measures to have more 
than 218 co-sponsors (the number necessary 
for a hearing before the Coinage subcom¬ 
mittee). 

• H.R. 2761, seeking commemorative coins 
marking the 50th anniversary of the United 
Services Organization. 

• H.R. 3056, seeking three commemorative 
coins honoring the 200th anniversary of the 
death of Benjamin Franklin. 

• H.R. 3177, seeking commemorative coins 
and paper money honoring the 1993 World 
University Games. 

Three non-commemorative coin mea- 
, sures are currently under consideration in¬ 
cluding S. 428, the circulating coinage rede- 
> sign bill which passed the Senate June 23. 
The other measures are: 

• H R. 505, the House version of redesign 
bill. No action has been taken the July 12 


hearing before the House Coinage subcom¬ 

mittee. 

• H.R. 1068, a measure which would au¬ 
thorize the striking of a gold-colored dollar 
coin and an end to production of the $1 Fed¬ 
eral Reserve note. 

Eleven bills seek medals, five of which 
are national gold medals which would be 
presented to various individuals: Frank 
Capra, James Stewart, Fred Zinnemann, 
Robert Wise, Brig. Gen. Herbert Wassom 
and Arnold Raphel. In each of the five bills, 
provisions are made for the production of 
bronze duplicates for sale to collectors by 
the U.S. Mint. 

The other six bills seek commemorative 
medals: Senate and House bills seeking 
medals for the 1993 World University 
Games, a House bill seeking medals honor¬ 
ing the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast 
Guard, a House bill seeking medals com¬ 
memorating the Chicago Symphony Orches¬ 
tra, a House bill seeking medals commemo¬ 
rating the 50th anniversary of the attack on 
Pearl Harbor, and medals commemorating 
the 100th anniversary of Yosemite National 
Park. 

In addition to collector-oriented bills, 
there are a number of proposals seeking 
such things as a return to the gold standard 
and a redesign of certain denominations of 
Federal Reserve notes to combat illegal use 
of the notes. 

No numismatic legislation has been intro¬ 
duced since the second session of the 101st 
Congress convened in January as of Feb. 7. 


ROCHETTE 

(From Page 18) 

train, with armed guards, was 
taking a shipment of coins from 
the Denver Mint to Phoenix, 
Ariz. The train consisted of four 
wagons of unusual style, running 
gear and a center frame box 
holding kegs — nothing more. 
One may have carried supplies. 

The wagon train stopped one 
night at the ranch and left 
before daybreak, heading south¬ 
west. 

Days later a group of riders 
visited the ranch, following the 
trail of the earlier wagon train. 
The wagons, the ranchers were 
told, never reached their next 
scheduled stop on the original 
itinerary — Montrose, Colo., 
some 14 miles west of the Black 
Canyon country. 

Jim Wilson surmised that the 
drivers may have brought their 
wagons too close to the rim, a 
weakened area giving way, and 
the dense brush at river’s edge 
hiding the wreckage. 

The Mint in Denver con¬ 
firmed that new coins were once 
shipped in wooden kegs. Allow¬ 
ing for six kegs to the wagon, 
four wagons in all, the total is 24 
lost kegs. 

They may lie somewhere at 
the bottom of Black Canyon — 
uncirculated 1908-D dimes 
worth as much as $25 million to 
trkHnv’a rftllertors. 














uuiium* 

ing legislation, creation of the design, and the personalities 
involved in the project, he also pointed out the collectibility 
of the original case, brochure and order form for the coin. 

Could it be that those 10 people only read the captions 
under the pictures and assumed that the society would still 
be offering the coins, even though the captions referred to 
an event in 1937 and described the marketing of that time 
period? Perhaps. Have we not been told a thousand times 
that one picture is worth a thousand words! 

A more likely scenario is that those 10 persons are very 
close readers and took the time to calculate the mintage 
figures. Swiatek reports that 50,028 coins were struck at the 
Philadelphia Mint in August 1937; 32,000 were later re- 

i good for hobby, 
preserve coins 

Striking the issues 


By Andrew Woodruff 


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prooflike Moi 
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Our Greatest Auctioi 
The Official 1990 AN, 

Awarded to Dana Linett’s San D\ 


March 2 & 3, 1990 


held at the Town & Country Convention Centerl 


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\ Public Auction ai 


Ismatic Guaranty Gorpj 
)ws how important it 
your coins’ grades 
b be accurate. So 
it make sure our 
graders have 
blenty of time to 
Ide your coins ac- 
Itely. Our graders 
|e limited in the 
^ber of coins they can 
lise each day, and we 
>nly a limited number] 
[s for grading. We re th 
)in grading service thatl 
these limits. 


Session I “Slab Mania” : F 


Approximately 8^ 


Over $1,000,000 ini 


set the industry stai 

assign your coin todal 
because NGC-graded 
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ling time produces a bj 
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ganization intentionally held back some coins to be sold 50 
and even 100 years after the issue date. And private hoards 
of commemoratives from the 1930s have been found from 
time to time. 

However, we doubt any organization would seriously con¬ 
template selling U.S. commemoratives produced prior to 
1954 at original Issue price. 

The Antietam half (sold in 1937 at issue for $1.65) in the 
same issue of Coin World which featured Swiatek's article 
ranged from $285 in Extremely Fine to $875 for a Mint State 
65 specimen in the U.S. Trends values. 

From the perspective of the bargain hunter, it was proba¬ 
bly worth his 25-cent stamp to find out if there might be a 
coin or two waiting for discovery! From the historical soci¬ 
ety’s perspective, it wasn’t. 

COIN WORLD 


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an inmate’s hands at Denver County Jail, where smoking is permitted. 


te used a with ice water and an American 
•eaker cover Cancer Society video, Fresh Start 
accept ciga- Stop Smoking in 21 Days, and any 
inmates suffering severe smoking 
en pains to withdrawal are given medical at¬ 
tention, Johnsen said. 

cut the in- Overall, Johnsen said, the smok- 
offenng mg ban has been successful, 
hard candy 'it’s going well. It always has," 
Johnsen said, 
es inmate^ Now that the jail has cleaner an, 


Johnsen said, il‘s easy to detect 
the smell of smoke. 

"They know they can’t smoke, 
so it's just an accepted manner," 
Johnsen said. 

Denver-area county jails are not 
as restrictive with designated ar¬ 
eas for smokers. Adams, Arapa¬ 
hoe, Denver, Douglas and Jeffer¬ 
son counties allow inmates to 
wnoke. 






i-Semitic incidents to 
see if they’re related.. Sen. 
Wayne Allard. R-Loveland, 
won a 4th Congressional Dis¬ 
trict Republican Primary’ en¬ 
dorsement from the National 
Federation of Independent 
Business, beating out Sen Jim 
Brandon, R Akron. 

Rocky Mountain New*Half 

■ Mother charged in 
son’s death/19 

■ No ’Bart ban’ so far in 
metro-area schools/24 

■ Weekend celebrations 
honor war dead/26 

■ One of Mormons’ earli¬ 
est female elders dies/32 


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Hearing set for six numismatic bills 


By Burnett Anderson 

Washington Bureau 

The fete of no less then tlx numis¬ 
matic bilk will be at stake in a hear inf 
planned for Peb. 28 by the House Sub¬ 
committee on Consumer Affairs and 
Coinage at the UU Capitol 

Most public attention has been 
focussed on the proposed 1991-1992 
issue for the 500th anniversary of 
Columbus' arrival In America, but there 
are two other measuree with substantial 
backing which would compete with it in 
1991 

One is a gold half eagle, silver dollar 
•nH clad half dollar series to commemo¬ 
rate the 50th anniversary of the massive 
Mount Rushmore presidential memo¬ 
rial and to raise funds “to improve, 


enlarge, and renovate” it 
This measure has not only obtained a 
majority of House members as co-spon- 
sores, but has already been approved by 
the Senate 

The second calls for a similar issue 
commemorating the 50th anniversary of 
the United Service Organization (USO), 
founded early in World War II to pro¬ 
vide facilities and support for U.S. mili¬ 
tary and navy personnel wherever In the 
world they may be baaed. 

This proposal, too, as with all the leg- 
lalation to be taken up by the subcom¬ 
mittee, carries the names of a majority I 
of representatives as co-sponsors 
The fourth coinage measure provides I 
for a three-coin issue commemorating | 
the 20th anniversary of Beniamin Frak 
tin's death. The coins would carry 1990 I 


hearing 

(Prom Page 4) 

date it. 

Chariman Richard I^Km.n D-Calif, 
ot the House coinage subcommittee, has 
expressed his concern over excessive 
prolifer a tioo of commemorative coin- 

However, all these measuree have the 
bacldng of influential members, who ars 
likely to be the lead-off witnesses at the 
upcoming hearing. 

Unlike their usual willingness to pre¬ 
dict the outcome of pending legislation, 
informed congressional staff members 
and other observers were wary of com 
menUng on the probable future of most 
of these bilk 

Approval of a commemorative pro¬ 
gram for the Columbus quincentenniaJ 
of 1992 is generally considered to be 
almoet certain. It could, however, be 
reduced to e single yeer of issue rather 
than the 1991-1992 progrom envisioned 
by its chief becker. Rep Frank Annun- 
tio, D-Ill Annunzio la ths former chair¬ 
man of the House coinage subcommit¬ 
tee 

The other two measures, also with the 
sponsorship of more than half the 
House members, provide for national 
medals, both of wnlrh ar* expected to 


get the blessing of the subcommittee. 

One would authorize a national medal 
for the U.S. Coast Guard, to comple¬ 
ment those already available for the 
Army and Navy. 

The other, sponsored by chairmen 
Lehman, would provide for s national 
medal commemorating the 100th anni¬ 
versary of Yosemite National Park. 

Rosen lists top 
25 investments 

Price volatility in the rare coin mar 
ket. gold prices and tighter profit mar 
gins for deakrs are diacuaaed in the Fab- 
ni*ry issue of the Rosen Numismatic 
Adutsory 

Editor Maurice Rosen provides his 
Ust of 26 top U.8. investment coins in 
his annual review and forecast iasua 

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H#,r haJf < * nU in MS-65 red. 
1873 and 1874 Seated Liberty dimes 
quarters and half dollars m MS 65 and 
Pr ^uMS-66 Barber quarters 
and naif 'Jollart 

Subscription information may be 
obtained irom Numismatic Counseling 
l?8fM P ° BoX 3H ‘ PU ‘ nvl *"' N Y 


dates. 

Designed to provide support for vol¬ 
unteer fire departments, a concept pio¬ 
neered by Franklin, the bill would have 
to be approved very promptly if it k to 
be produced and marketed this year 


With the 1990 Eisenhower dollar 
already in production and the first spec¬ 
imens in the hands of pre-issue buyers, 
the U.S Mint could probably acco 

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before Reagan’s symbolic action Wednesday 
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hysteria led directly to expunging this stain 
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